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It's running very slowly and has been for a long time. | It's running very slowly and has been for a long time. | ||
There are exactly 1 gazillion spambot accounts. Ok, it's actually 149,292 total accounts, most of which are bots. | There are exactly 1 gazillion spambot accounts. Ok, it's actually 149,292 total accounts, most of which are bots. | ||
..and why is the memory usage so high? | |||
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top - 15:04:00 up 269 days, 10:53, 2 users, load average: 7.47, 7.45, 6.52 | |||
Tasks: 13 total, 4 running, 9 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie | |||
Cpu(s): 56.2%us, 3.6%sy, 19.9%ni, 19.5%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.6%si, 0.0%st | |||
Mem: 16433988k total, 16262920k used, 171068k free, 1267844k buffers | |||
Swap: 7823644k total, 584084k used, 7239560k free, 4145820k cached | |||
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===Links=== | ===Links=== |
Revision as of 23:13, 14 December 2013
Hints about taking care of the wiki.. for better or worse.
Status and Maintenance Record
2013.12.14
The wiki's software is up to date. It's running very slowly and has been for a long time. There are exactly 1 gazillion spambot accounts. Ok, it's actually 149,292 total accounts, most of which are bots.
..and why is the memory usage so high?
top - 15:04:00 up 269 days, 10:53, 2 users, load average: 7.47, 7.45, 6.52
Tasks: 13 total, 4 running, 9 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 56.2%us, 3.6%sy, 19.9%ni, 19.5%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.6%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 16433988k total, 16262920k used, 171068k free, 1267844k buffers
Swap: 7823644k total, 584084k used, 7239560k free, 4145820k cached
Links
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maintenance_scripts
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php
Bad Bot Accounts
- ssh into the dreamhost site
- cd wiki.hacdc.org/
- php-5.4 maintenance/removeUnusedAccounts.php --delete >> rmunused.txt &
- tailf rmunused.txt
- go read a book
Misc
- css tweaks -> http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.css