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Noting that our server is suffering a denial of service attack - 44 requests PER SECOND.   Dealing with it as best I can from where I am (I'm on a train - in Lithuania!)
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Quote from: grahame on Today at 11:32:23
Noting that our server is suffering a denial of service attack - 44 requests PER SECOND.   Dealing with it as best I can from where I am (I'm on a train - in Lithuania!)

OK - dealt with ... the heavy black line is today's worker server load.  Looks dramatic - there was (perhaps) a handful of proper requests that may not have been answered but the server did not fall over.



If you wonder how I find out there's a problem like this, the server sends me a message  Grin

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