Hello,

One of our web hosting customers has recently installed Movable Type software on his web site and since then the server load has increased and the CPU load the scripts use is sometimes up to 97% (According to cPanel).

Has any one else (bad) experience with this software? I'm thinking of disallowing the software on the server (P4 3GHZ HT CPU, 1GB memory)...

Thanks.

Are they running a recent version? I've only seen high cpu usage on the older versions when they are getting pounded by spam bots.

Hi,

We're not familiair with Movable type (it's blog software according to a Google search). The mt.cgi file w/i the cgi-bin directory has the following version information :


#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# Copyright 2001-2004 Six Apart. This code cannot be redistributed without
# permission from www.movabletype.org.
#
# $Id: mt.cgi,v 1.20 2004/05/17 19:51:26 ezra Exp $


Thanks.

MT can run with or Without MySQL, if user run it without MySQL then the server load will go up when user rebuild his website.

also version 1.2 is very old, current version is 3.17

Thanks for the info.
They're indeed running a version using a flat-file database instead of using one of their MySQL databases...

They've been sent a warning to restrict their CPU usage...

Regards.