cgspace-notes/content/posts/2022-04.md

---
title: "April, 2022"
date: 2022-03-01T10:53:39+03:00
author: "Alan Orth"
categories: ["Notes"]
---

## 2022-04-01

- I did G1GC tests on DSpace Test (linode26) to compliment the CMS tests I did yesterday
  - The Discovery indexing took this long:

```console
real    334m33.625s
user    227m51.331s
sys     3m43.037s
```

## 2022-04-04

- Start a full harvest on AReS
- Help Marianne with submit/approve access on a new collection on CGSpace
- Go back in Gaia's batch reports to find records that she indicated for replacing on CGSpace (ie, those with better new copies, new versions, etc)
- Looking at the Solr statistics for 2022-03 on CGSpace
  - I see 54.229.218.204 on Amazon AWS made 49,000 requests, some of which with this user agent: `Apache-HttpClient/4.5.9 (Java/1.8.0_322)`, and many others with a normal browser agent, so that's fishy!
  - The DSpace agent pattern `http.?agent` seems to have caught the first ones, but I'll purge the IP ones
  - I see 40.77.167.80 is Bing or MSN Bot, but using a normal browser user agent, and if I search Solr for `dns:*msnbot* AND dns:*.msn.com.` I see over 100,000, which is a problem I noticed a few months ago too...
  - I extracted the MSN Bot IPs from Solr using an IP facet, then used the `check-spider-ip-hits.sh` script to purge them

## 2022-04-10

- Start a full harvest on AReS

## 2022-04-13

- UptimeRobot mailed to say that CGSpace was down
  - I looked and found the load at 44...
- There seem to be a lot of locks from the XMLUI:

```console
$ psql -c 'SELECT * FROM pg_locks pl LEFT JOIN pg_stat_activity psa ON pl.pid = psa.pid;' | grep -o -E '(dspaceWeb|dspaceApi)' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
   3173 dspaceWeb
```

- Looking at the top IPs in nginx's access log one IP in particular stands out:

```console
    941 66.249.66.222
   1224 95.108.213.28
   2074 157.90.209.76
   3064 66.249.66.221
  95743 185.192.69.15
```

- 185.192.69.15 is in the UK
- I added a block for that IP in nginx and the load went down...

## 2022-04-16

- Start harvest on AReS

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