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By: Dead Reckoning » Archive » Courting the Masses?

Dead Reckoning » Archive » Courting the Masses? — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:24:58 +0000

[...] Michael Hampton, creator of the excellent PHP-scripted Bad Behavior spam-fighting software (which, along with Spam Karma, has saved me from junk-comment migraines of a modest but repetitive nature), was slash-dotted a couple of days ago. Being that he had submitted the article himself, he admits to having a hand in his server’s subsequently pummelling: The server started showing signs of trouble fast. By 1:55 am the load average had passed 35. By 2:00 it had passed 50. At one point I saw the load average as high as 112, and I was over 500MB into swap on a box with 1GB of RAM. I noted that accesses were going VERY slowly and realized that neither Apache nor MySQL had had much performance tuning, and could do a lot better than this. [...]

By: Ads

Ads — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:52:28 +0000

Yes, well, hmmm. It’s early days. I’m still bracing for take-off, it should be any day now. Let’s hope your version 2 is ready when my little baby hits the big time. Thanks for the update, I’ll be checking in.

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:42:25 +0000

Only 81? I get more than that in a MINUTE sometimes. :) By the way I’m hard at work on version 2, a major rewrite. Be sure and follow its progress.

By: Ads

Ads — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:23:13 +0000

Be my guest, it’s the least I could do. Bad Behavior is doing an awesome job—delivering 81 stinging rebukes in just four days of operation at Dead Reckoning—and I shall be recommending it far and wide. Thanks for providing such an effective solution. (You should ask Michael Chiklis if you can use his picture.)

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:06:20 +0000

Crowd control. I like that. Mind if I use it? :)