June 09, 2006
Trackbacks Are Dead
We are running a very non-standard trackback system here at munu. The standard trackback script is disabled, and our custom one simply logs the trackback request in a text file, taking a small fraction of a second. Another process comes along once a minute, scoops up the log file, filters out the crud, and posts whatever remains. But that happens entirely in the background, and since 99.8% of trackbacks are spam, and it can detect and reject a spam trackback in 50 microseconds, the processing is very, very efficient.
Nevertheless, we are getting enough trackbacks right now to tie up fifty Apache processes. That's over half a gigabyte of memory dedicated to returning 404's to spammers.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:43 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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