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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2003-05-13 11:40 am
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All clear

[livejournal.com profile] queue got famous on [livejournal.com profile] lj_nifty for writing a Perl script that mass-resets the security levels of one's past posts. It quickly got so popular that jmac.org became well and truly slashdotted within hours, bogged down so much that an ssh login took about 5 minutes to accomplish. Problem "solved" by shutting down the webserver and renaming the scripts for the time being.

I sent q both my congratulations on creating a runaway success, and a brief code-critique towards making version 2.0 not run away quite so far.

I got all paranoid about the box getting cracked again and let some of this concern leak at q, but according to John@Arcus, all is well. (Except for the fact that I'm still running Debian-unstable. Sigh.) So I am relieved and a little embarrassed.
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Re: hardly felt it

[identity profile] prog.livejournal.com 2003-05-14 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
No, I think the boggage was the result of the program being too inefficient for heavy use, not because the machine was being hit a lot. Q used the WWW::Mechanize module to abstractly screen-scrape LiveJournal (which is interesting, as I'd never heard of that mofule and will have to check it out now), but probably should have used LWP to speak directly to the LJ server instead, through its own (HTTP-based) protocol. We'll see how well version 2.0 fares. :)
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