I can — Nemo was referencing some dialog we had while I was trying to figure out performance issues on my farm.
You can see the whole dialog, with graphs, here: http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/WikiApiary_talk:Operations/2013/May#Banned_IP_check_causing_slowness_and_removed_.28aka_Performance_victory.21.29 Actually, after rereading that Talk page I'll just leave it at the link. All the gruesome details are there. :-) TL:DR; Using this stopforumspam method caused me 4-5x slowdown in performance. Jamie Thingelstad [email protected] mobile: 612-810-3699 find me on AIM Twitter Facebook LinkedIn On May 28, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Al Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> ________________________________ >> From: Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 2:47 AM >> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback. >> >> >> Al, the problem with stop forum spam is not memory but rather the CPU >> usage and lag it creates, for an apparently limited amount of spam >> blocked (at least on small wikis) >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:Combating_spam#CPU_usage.3B_IP_blacklists> > > Hi Nemo. You didn't say why you would not recommend that approach. Can you > elaborate? > > >> >> Nemo >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
