• Registered: 2015-11-27
  • Posts: 13

Topic: Cache memory size

Hi,
I just had a DDOS attack not the server, and now it seems like there cache has grown a bit too large. I keep getting this error:
"Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 72 bytes) in /var/www/forum/cache/cache_bans.php on line 19929".

Is there a way to reset the cache, or should this be fixed some other way?

  • From: Siberia
  • Registered: 2013-08-05
  • Posts: 408

Re: Cache memory size

How many records contained in the bans table?
You want to ban people based on their ip? If yes, that ban their ip through the .htaccess file.

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  • Registered: 2015-11-27
  • Posts: 13

Re: Cache memory size

Thanks for answering.

Banning people posting spam have been used a lot by the administrators. I see now that the list contains around 6000 bans. This is mainly on email-username. We have given up banning ip-addresses a long time ago.

Would it be better deleting the accounts? Some of them are very old, so I guess the block on their email have little effect.

  • From: Siberia
  • Registered: 2013-08-05
  • Posts: 408

Re: Cache memory size

Remove all the banned users.
Clean the bans table in the database.
Delete the bans.php file in the cache folder.
Use the expansion forbidding registration of bots.

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  • Registered: 2015-11-27
  • Posts: 13

Re: Cache memory size

Thanks.

Two more questions:
* It is a lot of bans to remove. Would just clearing the table be sufficient, are are these also referenced elsewhere?
* What expansion for 1.4 prevents bots from registering?