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    Site Exploited by recent 0-day reported by vBulletin, ad code inserted.

    Hey. I recently fell victim to the /install folder exploit mentioned by vBulletin in a security update today. I believe I found all backdoors and...
    Thread by: sdi_employee, Sep 5, 2013, 2 replies, in forum: vBulletin
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    vBulletin Database Engine: MYISAM or InnoDB?

    Just a followup comment on this whole process: After adding the additional RAM (quadrupling to 32GB), the slow query log has logged ZERO slow...
    Post by: sdi_employee, Jul 25, 2013 in forum: vBulletin
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    vBulletin Database Engine: MYISAM or InnoDB?

    Right now there's only around 5, but that's how it was most of the time before. It only massed tons of connections when there were a ton of...
    Post by: sdi_employee, Jul 10, 2013 in forum: vBulletin
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    vBulletin Database Engine: MYISAM or InnoDB?

    Yup, all 32GB of memory up and running. And I haven't had any warnings or alerts from the site since it came back up. Fingers crossed, but I'll...
    Post by: sdi_employee, Jul 10, 2013 in forum: vBulletin
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    vBulletin Database Engine: MYISAM or InnoDB?

    And, five hours later the site was back up and running, magically with no posts lost. Phew.
    Post by: sdi_employee, Jul 10, 2013 in forum: vBulletin
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    vBulletin Database Engine: MYISAM or InnoDB?

    *sighs* http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17952_01/refman-5.0-en/myisam-crash-recovery.html Apparently yes. Not to mention that fact that I didn't...
    Post by: sdi_employee, Jul 9, 2013 in forum: vBulletin
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    vBulletin Database Engine: MYISAM or InnoDB?

    Do you know if mysql needs to be turned off in order to run myisamchk?
    Post by: sdi_employee, Jul 9, 2013 in forum: vBulletin
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    vBulletin Database Engine: MYISAM or InnoDB?

    It was showing up in top. The network admin and other guys around suggested that we take out the memory (the segmentation fault and memory changes...
    Post by: sdi_employee, Jul 9, 2013 in forum: vBulletin
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    vBulletin Database Engine: MYISAM or InnoDB?

    Thanks for the advice -- definitely will use that in the future if I need to. Also, yeah, that repair was super strange. I ended up trying to...
    Post by: sdi_employee, Jul 9, 2013 in forum: vBulletin
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    vBulletin Database Engine: MYISAM or InnoDB?

    And I wasn't able to repair the table, so now I get to restore a backup. Fun stuff. Luckily my mirror wasn't corrupt, so I could make a backup...
    Post by: sdi_employee, Jul 9, 2013 in forum: vBulletin
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    vBulletin Database Engine: MYISAM or InnoDB?

    I ran `shutdown -h now`, and it should've shutdown mysql properly, but I noticed a message in the logs saying it failed. I'm guessing my box...
    Post by: sdi_employee, Jul 9, 2013 in forum: vBulletin
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    vBulletin Database Engine: MYISAM or InnoDB?

    So, I beefed up my server to 32Gb of RAM, and started it up. My post table is now corrupt and I'm running a myisamchk -r on it; hopefully it's...
    Post by: sdi_employee, Jul 9, 2013 in forum: vBulletin
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    vBulletin Database Engine: MYISAM or InnoDB?

    Hahaha. Okay, I'll talk to my hardware guys and see what they can do for me. [edit] Do you know if you can just shutdown the box, add the...
    Post by: sdi_employee, Jul 9, 2013 in forum: vBulletin
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    vBulletin Database Engine: MYISAM or InnoDB?

    Looks like 0 swap usage all day.
    Post by: sdi_employee, Jul 9, 2013 in forum: vBulletin