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Old 10-05-2013, 04:27 PM
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Default HELP: Huge number of simultaneous connections to the db server

My forum is running very slowly and even after disabling all plugins. The issue seems to be stemming from the huge number of connections that are being made to the database server. Currently there are over 5000 simultaneous connections and while there are only about 65 PHP processes, these are taking up a large amount of resources - possibly because of poor queries being made to the MySQL server.

I did check the queries that are running on MySQL and they are not running slowly - the server is responding well, but the forum server is just opening so many connections for whatever reason.

Can I get some assistance on this? My forum version is 3.8.7. Tks.

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i've checked google analytics and it reports only 80 concurrent users. Though on my forum homepage, it reports 20000 current active users, most of which are guests.
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Old 10-05-2013, 05:39 PM
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A link might help
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Old 10-05-2013, 06:22 PM
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What do you see in Who's Online (with it set to see guests)? Recently I saw on my little forum about quarter of the users were a(?) guest(s) all viewing the same thread with the same browser. All I remember of the user agent is it was Mozilla 4 and MSIE.
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This is what I see right now:
Currently Active Users: 21729 (107 members and 21622 guests)
View Who's Online
Most users ever online is 24,817, 30-09-2012 at 04:30 PM.
This looks suspiciously like a DDoS attack. It might also be some Baidu bombing, do you block bad spiders?
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Old 10-06-2013, 02:30 AM
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Install this will help with all them bad bots
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My server admin checked and it doesn't seem like its a ddos. All the connections are started internally within the site, so it's vb that is opening all the connections.

What is Baidu bombing?
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What you are dealing with is a ton of bots, spiders, search engines crawling your forums all at the same time.

What do you have your session timeout set at? If you have it really high it would be a good indication of why you have so many guests in your whos online. using Simon Lloyd's Ban Spiders by User Agent will help you a lot to help combat this.

You will also have to use some IP blocks in your htaccess to stop Chinese bots from hitting your site, which is what Baidu is , they just don't care about rules and will just hit your site or forums like they are going out of style.

You should have this taken cared of in a couple of hours, if you need help let me know, take a look at this thread to help you more if you feel you can do what we did for Dave's website.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...53#post2448953
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Old 10-06-2013, 04:52 AM
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tks everyone. am thinking of installing the ban spiders plugin as recommended. however, i've no idea what to ban or who. how shld i approach this problem?

and what is a recommended session timeout setting? mine is currently set at 7200
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Once you install the mod you can replace the default list with this one :

Please note that I block facebook, MSN, Bing, Alexa and a couple others that you might not want to block, just remove them from the list and you are good to go ....

almaden
Anarchie
Artabus
ASPSeek
attach
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BackWeb
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Bandit
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Bot\mailto:craftbot@yahoo.com
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lftp
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Mirror
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Vacuum
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Web\Sucker
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[Ww]eb[Bb]andit
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Web\Downloader
WebEMailExtrac.*
WebFetch
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WebHook
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WebMirror
WebReaper
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Website\Quester
Webster
WebStripper
WebWhacker
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Whacker
Widow
WWWOFFLE
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YOUDAOBOT
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Zeus
baiduspider
beta.statsit.com
statsit
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GomezAgent
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DataCha0s
aiHitBot
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Zend_Http_Client
ReverseGet
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AppEngine
start.exe
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oBot
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Seznam
Fulltext
Facebook
Sunrise Communications AG
crawl
Crawl
MJ12bot
Bimbot
Snapbot
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MSN
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Old 10-06-2013, 05:03 AM
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Tks alot dude. Have installed and activated it using the list you recommended without Bing, MSN and Alexa. Let's see if it works.

One thing i don't understand is why like this all of a sudden??
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