[Labs-l] HELP Tool-labs login node unusable

Sun Nov 24 10:08:47 UTC 2013

login node should be replaced with larger instance, even if users are
behaving well there are too many sessions for so small box to handle

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 8:29 AM, YiFei <zhuyifei1999 at gmail.com> wrote:
> See https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/SAL#November_24
>
> 07:19 paravoid: disabled crontab for user avocato on tools-login, see above
> 07:17 paravoid: pkill -u avocato on tools-login, multiple
> /home/avocato/pywikipedia/redirect.py DoSing the bastion
>
>
> On Nov 24, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Daniel Schwen <lists at schwen.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> the login node of tool labs is currently unusable because one user
> decided running 80+ instances of his bot on there was a good idea.
> If anyone with kill -9 powers reads this please have mercy on us and
> strike these processes down with fury!!!
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
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[Labs-l] HELP Tool-labs login node *unusable*

[Labs-l] HELP Tool-labs login node unusable