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Board is SLOW of late.
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It is but not too bad. Afterall years of data is hogging the database and it takes up space and parsing that will take longer over time.
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I too have noticed this slowness in the last few days. It's tolerable for normal browsing, but it really kills my scripts for this site.
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it really kills my scripts for this site
Is it this, slowness, or is it Sledge, or is it just my Sledge is outdated?

The other day, when I originally posted this SLOW, at some point it kind of worked, at least it (eventually) displayed the prompts, but then on clicking it, it did not do what it should have, del+ban.
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In addition to SLOW, thinking it is the board itself too.

Even 'Select All' in a

Code: Select all

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Sledge was last updated March 2018, so I must be current with that.
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therube wrote:Even 'Select All' in a

Code: Select all

 box is not working.[/quote]
[img]http://i.psyche.me/confused_2.gif[/img] It works fine for me.
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Ah, you're right, oh, & that's going to be the reason why Sledge wasn't working - I had, javascript.enabled;false.
Must have toggled it at some point, for some reason, & forgotten about it.

Anyhow, things here are still slow :-).
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Now the slowness is intermittent, and sometimes I just get this error during the periods of slowness -
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SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]

Too many connections [1040]

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Now the fastness is even more intermittent ;-).

And as of yesterday, even more of these too:

Code: Select all

General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]

Too many connections [1040]

An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.
(I wanted to report this yesterday, but the board was too intermittent ;-).)
(Updated SQLite is out, perhaps with yet another .dot release due too, even if it may happen to be immaterial to this board's issue.)
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Now the fastness is even more intermittent ;-).

And as of yesterday, even more of these too:

Code: Select all

General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]

Too many connections [1040]

An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.
(I wanted to report this yesterday, but the board was too intermittent ;-).)
(Updated SQLite is out, perhaps with yet another .dot release due too, even if it may happen to be immaterial to this board's issue.)
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I am getting the same thing. Unless the site is under attack, this should not be happening.
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I've been investigating a bit. It might be a DDOS, but we also had more than 200K registered users, of which just 4K had posts.
I've deleted them and restarted the SQL Server. Let's watch how it goes...
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Thanks Giorgio for looking into this, but...
Giorgio Maone wrote: we also had more than 200K registered users, of which just 4K had posts.
I've deleted them
... one of these users, "kol", had a lot of PM exchanges with me, more than enough for me to know they're a legitimate user. Deleting their account not only seems erroneous, it might be causing glitches for me. Now sometimes when accessing my PMs, the forum is logging me out. And I seem to be missing the PMs they sent me.

Would it be possible to restore kol's account, while keeping the other zero-post users deleted?

EDIT I think the old link to kol's account might be https://forums.informaction.com/memberl ... e&u=263513
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barbaz wrote: Would it be possible to restore kol's account, while keeping the other zero-post users deleted?
I've actually restored his and all the other 200K, because I've found the culprit and it was (is) a DDOS attack indeed.
Attackers are mostly 39.105.x.x and 46.229.168.x.
They've got plenty spare IPs and are creating hundreds of distinct guest sessions per minute from each IP, clogging the sessions table and putting the SQL server down to its knees.
I've deployed some dynamic countermeasures (not based on their IPs) which seem to be working for now :)
Let's cross our fingers...
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Board is back to normal speed atm, and restoring kol's account looks to have fixed the logout glitch for me. Thank you Giorgio for resolving this! 8-)
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