Linode has alerted a few times since last night that the CPU usage on CGSpace (linode18) was high despite me increasing the alert threshold last week from 250% to 275%—I might need to increase it again!
Linode has alerted a few times since last night that the CPU usage on CGSpace (linode18) was high despite me increasing the alert threshold last week from 250% to 275%—I might need to increase it again!
<li>Linode has alerted a few times since last night that the CPU usage on CGSpace (linode18) was high despite me increasing the alert threshold last week from 250% to 275%—I might need to increase it again!</li>
<li>The Solr statistics the past few months have been very high and I was wondering if the web server logs also showed an increase</li>
<li>There were just over 3 million accesses in the nginx logs last month:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code># time zcat --force /var/log/nginx/* | grep -cE "[0-9]{1,2}/Jan/2019"
3018243
real 0m19.873s
user 0m22.203s
sys 0m1.979s
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>Normally I’d say this was very high, but <ahref="/cgspace-notes/2018-02/">about this time last year</a> I remember thinking the same thing when we had 3.1 million…</li>
<li>I will have to keep an eye on this to see if there is some error in Solr…</li>
<li>Atmire sent their <ahref="https://github.com/ilri/DSpace/pull/407">pull request to re-enable the Metadata Quality Module (MQM) on our <code>5_x-dev</code> branch</a> today
<ul>
<li>I will test it next week and send them feedback</li>
<li>Another alert from Linode about CGSpace (linode18) this morning, here are the top IPs in the web server logs before, during, and after that time:</li>
<li><code>45.5.184.2</code> is CIAT and <code>85.25.237.71</code> is the new Linguee bot that I first noticed a few days ago</li>
<li>I will increase the Linode alert threshold from 275 to 300% because this is becoming too much!</li>
<li>I tested the Atmire Metadata Quality Module (MQM)’s duplicate checked on the some <ahref="https://dspacetest.cgiar.org/handle/10568/81268">WLE items</a> that I helped Udana with a few months ago on DSpace Test (linode19) and indeed it found many duplicates!</li>
<li><code>45.5.184.2</code> is CIAT, <code>70.32.83.92</code> and <code>205.186.128.185</code> are Macaroni Bros harvesters for CCAFS I think</li>
<li><code>195.201.104.240</code> is a new IP address in Germany with the following user agent:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>This user was making 20–60 requests per minute this morning… seems like I should try to block this type of behavior heuristically, regardless of user agent!</li>
<li>This user was making requests to <code>/browse</code>, which is not currently under the existing rate limiting of dynamic pages in our nginx config
<ul>
<li>I <ahref="https://github.com/ilri/rmg-ansible-public/commit/36dfb072d6724fb5cdc81ef79cab08ed9ce427ad">extended the existing <code>dynamicpages</code> (12/m) rate limit to <code>/browse</code> and <code>/discover</code></a> with an allowance for bursting of up to five requests for “real” users</li>
<li>Generate a list of CTA subjects from CGSpace for Peter:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>dspace=# \copy (SELECT DISTINCT text_value, count(*) FROM metadatavalue WHERE resource_type_id=2 AND metadata_field_id=124 GROUP BY text_value ORDER BY COUNT DESC) to /tmp/cta-subjects.csv with csv header;
<li>This morning there was another alert from Linode about the high load on CGSpace (linode18), here are the top IPs in the web server logs before, during, and after that time:</li>
<li>At this rate I think I just need to stop paying attention to these alerts—DSpace gets thrashed when people use the APIs properly and there’s nothing we can do to improve REST API performance!</li>
<li>Perhaps I just need to keep increasing the Linode alert threshold (currently 300%) for this host?</li>
<li>Peter sent me corrections and deletions for the CTA subjects and as usual, there were encoding errors with some accentsÁ in his file</li>
<li>In other news, it seems that the GREL syntax regarding booleans changed in OpenRefine recently, so I need to update some expressions like the one I use to detect encoding errors to use <code>toString()</code>:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>or(
isNotNull(value.match(/.*\uFFFD.*/)),
isNotNull(value.match(/.*\u00A0.*/)),
isNotNull(value.match(/.*\u200A.*/)),
isNotNull(value.match(/.*\u2019.*/)),
isNotNull(value.match(/.*\u00b4.*/)),
isNotNull(value.match(/.*\u007e.*/))
).toString()
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>Testing the corrections for sixty-five items and sixteen deletions using my <ahref="https://gist.github.com/alanorth/df92cbfb54d762ba21b28f7cd83b6897">fix-metadata-values.py</a> and <ahref="https://gist.github.com/alanorth/bd7d58c947f686401a2b1fadc78736be">delete-metadata-values.py</a> scripts:</li>
<li>Peter had marked several terms with <code>||</code> to indicate multiple values in his corrections so I will have to go back and do those manually:</li>
<li>So it seems that the load issue comes from the REST API, not the XMLUI</li>
<li>I could probably rate limit the REST API, or maybe just keep increasing the alert threshold so I don’t get alert spam (this is probably the correct approach because it seems like the REST API can keep up with the requests and is returning HTTP 200 status as far as I can tell)</li>
<li>Bosede from IITA sent a message that a colleague is having problems submitting to some collections in their community:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>Authorization denied for action WORKFLOW_STEP_1 on COLLECTION:1056 by user 1759
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>Collection 1056 appears to be <ahref="https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/68741">IITA Posters and Presentations</a> and I see that its workflow step 1 (Accept/Reject) is empty:</li>
</ul>
<p><imgsrc="/cgspace-notes/2019/02/iita-workflow-step1-empty.png"alt="IITA Posters and Presentations workflow step 1 empty"/></p>
<ul>
<li>IITA editors or approvers should be added to that step (though I’m curious why nobody is in that group currently)</li>
