Hi,

I have a slight problem of on one of my servers.

Basically I haev a client who over the past couple of days has triggered CPanel to shut down a process due to excess resource usage.

It is in relation to a script he is using which is called WebCalander http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/

Now he doesn't push a great deal of bandwidth on the server and the actual server itself only pushes 40 GB a month and has 100 odd accounts on it in total.

I have had to asked the client to find an alternative program written in PHP.

Has anyone had similiar experiences with Perl?

Regards

Essexguy

I have found the problem is not so much the script, but it is search engines that get stuck in it...

Usually if you setup a proper robot.txt file in your home directory to keep them out, that script should work just fine.

I run WebCalendar on my site, and haven't had any complaints about it. Granted, I'm not at all a busy site by any means, but it really shouldn't be that bad.

Faldran mentions something I had never thought of. If a bot somehow gets in there, there are links for the next and previous months/days/weeks/years. Imagine the joys of having a bot click "Next" to view the next day until, literally, the end of time. :)

well would you believe it, it appears as if this "may" be the problem. I have checked access logs for that domain, and only to find the god damn googlebot spending large amounts of time at this site.

I'm still not sure whether it would cause an excessive resource usage problem, but at least it gives me an idea.

Thanks Guys.

Yeah, I have had three sites in the last year, that has happened too. Everytime it was loads of like 20 + on the server, all from the search engine having lots of fun in the calendar, for us, that has fixed it every time and never had a re-occurance of it since they put the in the proper robot.txt files.

Well, good luck on it.