Sorry readers, but it’s time to close off the comments. Spam has gotten to be enough of a problem that it’s slowing down a server we use for work. MT-Blacklist isn’t taking care of that part of the problem, so I’ve had to add a bit of fun to the server itself. Basically, every five minutes, the server looks for the mt-comments.cgi script and kills off the multiple copies of perl that it’s spawned.
Here’s the command, just in case anyone else needs it:
ps -ax | grep mt-comments.cgi | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill
Put that in Root’s crontab with a 5 minute refresh and watch all your load problems fade away…