Dear assholes,

If you plan to take advantage of my blog to rank your shitty pharmacy webpage high on Google, take the following into consideration:

• if you hit my poor Pentium 150 with hundreds of stupid HTTP requests to my blog, at least do it a few at a time during the day. Your referral stats pointing to your pharmacy shit will still show up (in the case that the blog stats are public, and in my case they aren't), and you will not kill the box in about 15 minutes like you did 3 times in the last two days.
• if you kill my box, Google won't be able to do its fine job and we'll both lose.
• at least, point to an existing website.

Thanks for considering a symbiotic relationship in the future.

So the bastards did it again yesterday, and this time I had to drive to where the box is located and see what was going on in console. As expected, OOM killer fun, and by no means I could recover it, even after taking it off the network and trying to SysRQ it a bit.

It seems the spammers are trying to take advantage of referral stats now, and hit sites with tons of requests. Every request to /blog in this site means a not so cheap python process which takes quite some memory, which is a scarce resource in poor natura.oskuro.net. With just a few blog processes going on, the box starts swapping to its death.

I know, I should add limits to my Apache2 configuration, and possibly pyblosxom caches. For now, stopping spamd has helped a bit, as that process only was sucking ~35% of the memory.