Hello Tim, Thanks very much for sharing this crucial information and definitely I will start with the upgrade to the latest DSpace 9 as you have mentioned even 8.2 accommodates remedies for the bots.
Regards, Lewatle On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 5:54 PM DSpace Technical Support < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lewatle, > > I'd recommend starting with our Performance Tuning Guidelines, especially > those regarding "Limit which pages are processed by Server Side Rendering > (SSR)" and possibly also the "Turn on caching of Server Side Rendered > pages". When a large number of bots all hit SSR, they may overwhelm both > the frontend and backend... so, limiting SSR or caching it can sometimes > help. However, keep in mind, some of these settings are only available in > 8.2 or later. So, they won't help if you are running 8.0...you would need > to upgrade to take advantage of them. > > https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC8x/Performance+Tuning+DSpace > > We do also have a ticket where we've started some discussions about > *managing aggressive bots* (especially AI-related bots). > https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/4565 If these bots are > overly aggressive, then it's possible the hints in our "Performance Tuning > Guidelines" may not make a large impact (it may only slow down the bots > slightly). These overly aggressive bots are not something that can fully > solved in DSpace code itself...but, we have a lot of external sources > listed in that ticket, along with some hints from other DSpace developers > on what has worked for them. > > Hopefully that can at least get you started. > > Tim > > > On Tuesday, January 27, 2026 at 2:08:11 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > >> Hello DSpace Tech, >> >> There is bots issue on DSpace 8.0 site, usually it happen when opened >> access to overseas countries that can be US, China and other countries this >> is causing error 504 to come out, when checking tomcat log file complaint >> is about memory leak, please assist by suggesting any steps to follow. >> >> Regards, >> Lewatle >> > -- > All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: > https://lyrasis.org/code-of-conduct/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/dspace-tech/YuayK2xTXzU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/2f095135-0618-47ff-9493-c02705ab5657n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/2f095135-0618-47ff-9493-c02705ab5657n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://lyrasis.org/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/CAJwjfFKrWEKPf4TqNz3AU%3DjnNT7sigLjV0miDw%3D%3DM9iD%2B9PdWQ%40mail.gmail.com.
