Data mining the test harness... from Peter Linss on 2010-11-25 (public-css-testsuite@w3.org from November 2010)

From: Peter Linss <peter.linss@hp.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:22:23 -0800
To: www-style <www-style@w3.org>, public-css-testsuite@w3.org
Message-Id: <80676749-D1FF-4570-A7BA-6A31D0B31E2E@hp.com>

Starting at midnight tonight it appears that several bots have been  
running through the test harness attempting to extract all the test  
results (from varied IP addresses all over the world). Whoever is  
doing this, please stop, it is causing extremely high CPU loads on the  
server. Each request of a details page causes a significant SQL query.

The test results _are_ public data and if someone wants the complete  
set, simply ask, I'll make a one-file download available with all the  
data.

In the meanwhile I've temporarily disabled the result details page  
until the bots lay off the server.

Peter

Received on Thursday, 25 November 2010 21:22:59 UTC