Forum has been very slow 2 days now...

[Tibono]

Very slow data:
It is currently Wed Aug 27, 2025 5:04 am
In total there are 26 users online :: 4 registered, 1 hidden and 21 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Registered users: BLEXBot [crawler], Google [Bot], PetalBot [crawler], Tibono

[Tibono]

Very slow data:
It is currently Wed Aug 27, 2025 2:03 pm
In total there are 36 users online :: 4 registered, 0 hidden and 32 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Registered users: Bing [Bot], BLEXBot [crawler], Google [Bot], Tibono

[ernest]

Runs fine at this moment...

Context :
WHO IS ONLINE
In total there are 658 users online :: 8 registered, 1 hidden and 649 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 8406 on Sat May 10, 2025 9:58 am

Registered users: Amazonbot [crawler], Bing [Bot], BLEXBot [crawler], DotBot [crawler], ernest, Google [Bot], PetalBot [crawler], YandexBot [crawler]
Legend: Administrators, Global moderators

[syzygy]

The forum is now responsive again, but an hour ago or so the forum was very slow and kept logging me out. Posts that I submitted did not even make it to the forum.

So are these known AI companies that are DDOS'ing the forum? Isn't this a form of computer criminality?

[Volker Pittlik]

...So are these known AI companies that are DDOS'ing the forum? Isn't this a form of computer criminality?

I wouldn't be surprised. But what interest could be behind it?
Volker

[hgm]

I have very little time to spend on TalkChess at the moment, as I am renovating my future home. Which means long days out of town doing construction work, without any internet access.

I know where to find the Apache access logs (/var/log/apache2/*), but I have no time to study them anywhere in the near future. I don't think it would be proper to publish those, as they contain the i.p. addresses from which the requests game. And it is possible to tie those to the author of a posting by matching the time stamp of a POST request to that of a posting in the forum.

[ernest]

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I know where to find the Apache access logs (/var/log/apache2/*), but I have no time to study them anywhere in the near future. I don't think it would be proper to publish those, as they contain the i.p. addresses from which the requests game. And it is possible to tie those to the author of a posting by matching the time stamp of a POST request to that of a posting in the forum.

Well, anybody here with enough knowledge - and time - to take the task ?

[smatovic]

I have no time in spare to engage in TC server operations, sorry.

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Srdja

[hgm]

I suppose it would be OK to share a log of all GET requests. So I extracted those from the access log of September 1, a day where there were complaints about the slowness, and put those on-line somewhere. If someone is interested in having a look at those, send me a PM, and I will give you the URL.