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Hints about taking care of the wiki..  for better or worse.
Hints about taking care of the wiki..  for better or worse.
===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 &
*: ... run w/o the --delete flag first
* tailf rmunused.txt
* go read a book
===Misc===
* css tweaks ->  http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.css
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==Status and Maintenance Record==
==Status and Maintenance Record==
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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.
I tweaked the removeUnusedAccounts.php script..  took out the check for logs.
Ran and deleted ~146k accounts.


..and why is the memory usage so high?
..and why is the memory usage so high?
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===Links===
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maintenance_scripts
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php




=== Bad Bot Accounts ===
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* 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

Revision as of 16:39, 15 December 2013

Hints about taking care of the wiki.. for better or worse.


Links


Bad Bot Accounts

  • ssh into the dreamhost site
  • cd wiki.hacdc.org/
  • php-5.4 maintenance/removeUnusedAccounts.php --delete >> rmunused.txt &
    ... run w/o the --delete flag first
  • tailf rmunused.txt
  • go read a book


Misc




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. I tweaked the removeUnusedAccounts.php script.. took out the check for logs. Ran and deleted ~146k accounts.


..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