You may (or may not) have noticed this site (and my sister site, rjmaguire.com) have been really slow as of late. I was trying to do some extensive logging about those hacking attempts I reported before, so I installed a new add-on in my Web server to do so. I never actually got it to work, but it didn’t seem to be doing any harm, so I left it installed and turned on.
A word to the wise, trust documentation. The help for my add-on said not to leave it on for extended periods of time, and that it’s really only meant for short periods of debugging traffic. Well, I read that and chose to ignore it, thinking of course that I knew better.
Well, it’s turned off now, and things are much snappier than they were.
I still don’t know what it was doing, because I never did get any output from the darn thing. Apparently, it was just spinning its cycles, spewing its data into the /dev/null’s of the world.