[Leica] Why you can’t get into the gallery

[Peter Dzwig]

Brian,

Ouch! That looks terrible! What don't you take it down for a few days so 
that you can get in and fix mitigation? I am sure we all agree that 
fixing it is important and that if you need to take it down to do so it 
would be very worthwhile.

Not fixing it as best we are able imposes an unrealistic load on you as 
admin.

Over here The Leica Society uses a "prove your not a robot" on most, if 
not all, pages. While that may be a little excessive, I am sure that if 
you decide to use a "prove your not a robot" page to keep our stuff safe 
that would be something that we could all put up with.

Regards,

Peter

On 12/05/2026 23:26, Brian Reid wrote:
> The LUG gallery server is under such heavy attack that I can't even get 
> into it to try mitigating somehow.
> The "attacks" are AI robots extracting images to load into their software.
> 
> Here is a load listing of the servers in the data center rack holding 
> the gallery server. The numbers are 1, 5, and 15-minute loads. Any 
> number bigger than 2 will start to show slowness.
> 
> backup4    up  514+16:44,  0 users,  load  0.90,  0.55,  0.45
> gallery    up    1+17:21,  0 users,  load 67.30, 66.36, 68.02
> justus     up  224+23:00,  0 users,  load  0.12,  0.20,  0.21
> justus2    up   10+17:49,  0 users,  load  0.00,  0.00,  0.00
> justus3    up 2118+05:19,  0 users,  load  0.19,  0.20,  0.21
> lfinfo3    up       2:34,  2 users,  load  0.37,  0.25,  0.23
> mejac      up  514+16:57,  0 users,  load  0.15,  0.24,  0.24
> s21        up  280+09:21,  0 users,  load  1.80,  1.86,  1.69
> s22        up   24+13:18,  0 users,  load  0.87,  0.58,  0.46
> s24        up  514+16:27,  0 users,  load  0.33,  0.29,  0.25
> server1    up  755+00:37,  1 user,   load  0.29,  0.15,  0.09
> vrx        up  478+17:28,  0 users,  load  0.11,  0.15,  0.15
> www        up  223+22:46,  0 users,  load  0.27,  0.47,  0.49
> 
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Dr. Peter Dzwig