Cause of fried server

Im watching my database turn on my bot at the moment.

The Database is still haveing problems.
It wouldnt suprise me if it was some hack or grid attack.

And bots shouldnt effect the search grid that much If its setup the way I think its setup.

I believe SL uses a caching system, to cache searches, until thay change. This saves resources probly by a few thousand percent, really when bots are around, as bots are going to use a standard settings - less cache, less to regenerate = less resources.

So the search would basically be equivalent to static until the database is written to.. then the next unique query is cached.

The way the searches are currently returning also suggest this. The search runs perfectly smooth for a minute then mangles it self, several requests are summited then all returned at once after the database regerates.

It could possibly be a query attack, forcing the caching system to do a hole lot of new searches and cache them. That could easily force the load to be hundreds of times that of what average hole population put on it, bots included.

But needless to say, what ever the problem actually is, im pretty sure its having resource problems, its taking its time to regenerateing the cache.

With this theory 70% or so of the resources of the DB server would be from the unique searches, the rest would take almost nothing but bandwidth.

Good gawd! You both have made your points over and over and over again. We get it! You don't like bots as we have been told in every thread you can troll in. I'm not for or against them myself.

Time to move on.

Never, ever.

As long as bots are hammering resources and greed prevails, I will never cease.

You ain't seen nothing yet.

The landbot issue to me isn't the biggest problem with mainland. To me, the biggest problems are land griefers, who put up horrible builds next to good ones to for people to buy at extortionate prices, and adlots, which are closely related but even more of a problem because they are almost always permanent.

Seems to me that personal attacks like yours fit the profile of trolling far more than talking about landbots in a thread about landbots.

Here's a free tip for you: if you start reading a thread and see it's about landbots, stop reading. That way you can keep your head blissfully buried in the sand.

I'm sure it would have blown over more quickly if Ahzzmandius Werribee hadn't made up a bunch of irrelevant stuff to try to justify how bots have no impact on the Search Server. (Thanks for being a voice of reason Reverend!)


I fall somewhere in the middle. 30,000 "online residents" bots or not use the search server on some sort of L shaped distribution. Some use it excessively... most of the excessive users are bots. Most use search rarely or at least infrequently. One bot can equate a few hundred non-bots with regards to search usage in any particular hour.

Whatever caused it to melt down may be completely unrelated to current usage patterns but instead be the loss of back-end server power that resulted in fewer servers responding to queries. Are bots to blame for that or for the non-functional result? Some small degree more than non-bots searchers... very likely.

Did I have a point? No. Just killing time.

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