[Fab-user] Server downtime

2009-11-13 Thread Jeff Forcier
Hi all, Just a note in case anyone has been trying to access the server, it looks like some search engine bot is crawling the site and causing it to overheat, so to speak (going OOM in a big way.) Not 100% positive that's the cause, but _some_ traffic pattern in the past few hours is causing the

[Fab-user] Re: Server downtime

2009-11-13 Thread Jeff Forcier
Update: while I had to bounce Apache a number of times during the afternoon/evening as a stopgap solution, I think I've managed to block the bots from crawling the problem areas for now. There will likely be more downtime in the future as I clean up the existing solution a bit so it's a better