[Moin-user] Moin performance desastrous

[Thomas Waldmann]

On 12/16/2013 10:10 AM, Kai Jaeger wrote:
> I realize that this is probably a Windows or Apache issue rather than
> a MoinMoin one.

Why?

> Anyway: because I had to through Apache's error as well as the access
> log I found something strange totally unrelated to my problem:
> 
> The most popular page on my wiki is:
> 
> ... - - [16/Dec/2013:09:04:01 +0000] "GET
> /HelpOnMacros/MonthCalendar/2006-09-29?diffs=1&show_att=1&action=rss_rc&unique=0&page=HelpOnMacros%2FMonthCalendar%2F2006-09-29&ddiffs=1
> HTTP/1.0" 503 410
> 
> with different dates his page is called EVERY minute 20-30 times, all the time.

Likely, some bot gone wild.

Notice that the http status is 503 as moin has already activated surge
protection against it - so processing such a request shouldn't take long
(as you could see when running latest code with timing log enabled).