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I thought my web site was under constant attack.  The PHP sub-process (fpm-php) was constantly pegged with multiple workers at 100% CPU, which is what this message forum uses.

I was wrong!  I was attacking myself with a poorly configured Nextcloud docker container.  Some background process I didn't know about was hammering the resources.

The fix for me was to add a redis cache (also as a docker container) and configure Nextcloud to use it.  These are the steps I followed:
1) Since we are already running Nextcloud as a docker container, it's safe to assume docker is installed and running
2) Create a docker container for redis.  I used something like the following command:
docker create \        --name=nextcloud-redis \
        --env=PUID=1000 \
        --env=PGID=1000 \
        --env=TZ=America/Toronto \
        -v /path/on/host/redis:/data \
        -p 6379:6379 \
        --restart=unless-stopped \
        redis
3) Start redis:
docker start nextcloud-redis && docker logs -f nextcloud-redis4) Reconfigure Nextcloud to use redis cache.  Edit your config.php for Nextcloud (mine sits in config/www/nextcloud/config/)
Add the following lines within the $CONFIG = array ( block:php
  'memcache.local' => '\OC\Memcache\APCu',
  'memcache.distributed' => '\OC\Memcache\Redis',
  'memcache.locking' => '\OC\Memcache\Redis',
  'redis' => [
    'host' => '192.168.x.x', // Matches the host IP running your redis container
    'port' => 6379,
  ],
5) Restart nextcloud
docker restart nextcloud && docker logs -f nextcloud
If all goes well, you should see the CPU usage for nextcloud drop like a rock in whatever monitoring tool you use.

(Update) In the time it took me to write this, whatever 15 minute background jobs is causing the blockage started again and once again my nextcloud container is taking 577% CPU.  Having a cache doesn't hurt, but the quest for a solution continues.
Also note, the above redis cache is unsecured and I'm relying on a well insulated LAN for protection.  You should probably add at least password protection to your cache.

Much better Docker update checker here: dockcheck  Runs exclusively on the command line and faster than downloading every new image and comparing.

WinRAR has another 0-day exploit.  Why aren't you using 7-zip?

Source

Did you opt out of Alexa sending your every word back to Amazon?  Better bin those devices, because Amazon is ditching the option (assuming they ever really honoured it).

Halloween is the perfect time for a Death Knight in Diddlycraft.

TV Series post!
Halo - Season One: John "Master Chief" struggles with Microsoft Cortana spying on him, meanwhile a prophesied young girl defends a planet. 
          Season Two: undoes all that in the first ten minutes and refuses to explain why dead people aren't dead 
Elsebeth - A side character from Good Wife/Good Fight immediately solves a murder the audience witnesses then spends the rest of the episode trying to prove it to boneheaded police 
Tracker - Smallville's Green Arrow finds missing people for a price. 
Krapopolis - Tyrannus is a self-declared king of early civilization, with supernatural parents and siblings, and ungrateful citizens.  No description does this show justice. 
Welcome to Wrexham - Touching, humourous, and exciting documentary about Deadpool and some other guy buying a football team in Wales. 
Clarkson's Farm - An idiot known for loving cars becomes an idiot who loves farming 
Taskmaster - Do you like laughing?  Watch this show 
Ghosts (UK) - A young couple inherits a manor that they turn into a B&B, she has an accident and can now interact with ridiculous ghosts that died on the premises. 
Ghosts (US) - A young couple inherits a manor that they turn into a B&B, she has an accident and can now interact with ridiculous ghosts that died on the premises.  Now in American accents! 
Roadside Rescue - A guy fixes delapotated vehicles enough to get them running again.  A TV version of Vicegrip Garage from youtube. 
Shogun - Masterfully done retelling of the James Clavell book.  Lord Toranaga attempts to keep the peace in feudal Japan, and some Anjin makes for a useful distraction 
Physical 100 - Korean tournament of beefy men and women undergoing gruelling physical challenges.  Second season as good as the first 

 

Tried a couple new AI services tonight.  Supposedly Sonauto gives you more control, and lets you name an artist you want the output to mimic.  It sort of works, but often sounded garbled, like a backwards played record.  Maybe it was just the way I was using it.

Then I stumbled upon Udio and generated this song:

Canvas Reverie

Similar to Suno, it generates pairs of output in small chunks, and you have to add sections to extend it into a full song.  It seems to have more allowance for free use, and the output sounds less compressed than Suno.  Generated lyrics can be just as bizarre though.