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Performance issues? (mander.xyz)
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Server is slow for me in the past few days. Anyone else feeling the same?

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[–] Sal@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Thanks!

I don't see those specific IPs, nor 16514. But now I see what scrapers tend to look like in the logs :)

I am now pretty sure that the cause was scraper-like activity coming from the Mlmym front-end that I am serving over an onion site. I am not sure if it randomly started mis-behaving or if a tor scraper was using it.

After blocking this, federation was restored, performance increased, and CPU use came down: