Throttling issues INN

[Avon]

Thanks for the feedback etc. guys.

Another reply direct to me suggested I block a few systems that may causing
the load to occur by 
stating an IP range that could halt abusers of the system

So I'm inferring it the slowdown and hassles may lie due to someone just
sucking down as many
newsgroup posts as they can well and above the normal levels I usually see -
would that cause it?

Check the last 5-7 days of my logs and you will see someone(s) are pulling
down huge amounts 
of posts vs. the norm.

http://news.bbs.nz/stats/innreport.html

e.g.
http://news.bbs.nz/stats/news-notice.2018.06.12-23.58.05.html#nnrpd_dom_grou
ps 

Best. Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: inn-workers <inn-workers-bounces at lists.isc.org> On Behalf Of Russ
> Allbery
> Sent: Sunday, 17 June 2018 11:08 AM
> To: inn-workers at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Throttling issues INN
> 
> Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> writes:
> > On 06/16/2018 01:57 AM, Avon wrote:
> 
> >> Mode: throttled (loadav [innwatch:hiload] 2366 gt 2000)
> 
> > I would be concerned if that load average directly translates to the
> > load average reported by uptime or top.  (I don't know if it's a
> > multiple or even related.)
> 
> It's uptime with the period deleted, so roughly 100x times the reported
> uptime number.  So this is a 23.66 load average, which means that about 24
> processes are trying to run simultaneously.
> 
> My guess given that / ran out of space is that something on the system
> (maybe multiple things) is in some kind of crash and restart loop and
> hammering the system.
> 
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