Slow speed

[Duluth]

Bot traffic might not be the cause (it's been very high since Jan)

CPU usage is very high. However there's been no code changes for ages.

I've disabled a few plugins which may help. That means that some of the embeds will stop working

I notice on the github page that one of the recent issues fixed was a mem leak. So it's worth patching everything to the latest level

I do prefer doing that on Mon or Tues when there is no sport on.

[Duluth]

Ok, turned off some more things to free up CPU. A couple of info pages (teamsheets etc) will be empty now

[JK]

Does seem a bit quicker now

[Duluth]

@JK said in Slow speed:

Does seem a bit quicker now

Yeah it's better but still not back to normal

This will have to do until after the weekend. There's some larger changes I'll try next week

[No Quarter]

Thanks @Duluth we all appreciate it

[pakman]

Will the Ferner with ‘Excess Load’ please pull his finger out?

[Machpants]

Seems better this morning

[Duluth]

A quick update. There is a CPU issue and it's likely caused by the bot traffic. The regular traffic also has an influence.

So that's why the forum was mostly ok this morning but very slow on Saturday evening

Later today there will be an outage. I'll post a time up later. This may or may not help.. it's more of a prerequisite for a change that we'll apply tomorrow.

The down time today and tomorrow will be ~1 hour each

[Kirwan]

Modern internet landscape is going to be fun with these fucking AI startups stealing data from where ever they can to train models.

[nzzp]

@Kirwan said in Slow speed:

Modern internet landscape is going to be fun with these fucking AI startups stealing data from where ever they can to train models.

It's extraordinary right - the internet is an enormous data replication machine, and some people start using that data!

Trying to protect data is nigh on impossible. Good luck to the owners.

Also, sorry for the thread derailment - consider splitting off; keen for a wider discussion on some of this

[Duluth]

@Kirwan said in Slow speed:

Modern internet landscape is going to be fun with these fucking AI startups stealing data from where ever they can to train models.

I've hidden some content from non logged in users. I can see from the logs the bots aren't scraping for rugby..

[Machpants]

@Duluth said in Slow speed:

@Kirwan said in Slow speed:

Modern internet landscape is going to be fun with these fucking AI startups stealing data from where ever they can to train models.

I've hidden some content from non logged in users. I can see from the logs the bots aren't scraping for rugby..

They're after hot polish chicks to apply nude fakes to, the dastardly swine!

[NTA]

The suggestions my provider had to update .htaccess seems to have helped with their resource alerts. Not sure if that would help with the bot situation here

[Duluth]

@NTA

Thanks. We use nginx so it's slightly different. We will be making changes in that area tomorrow though

[No Quarter]

Is there any way of blocking the bots? A WAF or something? Or too costly?

(edit - I am sure you have already thought of this)

[mariner4life]

@Duluth said in Slow speed:

I can see from the logs the bots aren't scraping for rugby.

what? The most obvious ones are all over the Hurricanes threads

[Duluth]

@No-Quarter

Yes that's basically what we are looking at. Tomorrow hopefully

[No Quarter]

Thanks @Duluth lots of grumpy old men on here with more money than sense that I am sure would be willing to help with any additional costs, myself included

[Duluth]

@No-Quarter

Cheers

There's no new costs. We are running at a slight loss though. We'll try to close that gap with ads before begging

[Duluth]

There won't be any downtime today

I made a change earlier today that has helped. Non logged in page views have dropped a lot and the stress on the CPU has eased back

Speed seems almost back to normal

I want to let it run like this for 24 hours to get some better logs. Will do the maintenance later in the week