It should not be anywhere near that size. I see a couple of dozen rows on most forums. Is your sessions table massive too?
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Session table is an okay size - about 1000 records. I recently had a lot of malicious bots that pounded away at the forum for a while (think 400+ random IPs from infected machines trying to get through the Q&A all at the same time), which I believed is what caused the recent inflation of the _qa_confirm table, now at 8.8 million records. Anonymous posting is allowed in several sections of the board for those looking for a quick answer to a problem, but guest users have to clear the Q&A questions to successfully post. The bad script bots don't get through since I manually changed the questions every so often, but they're still programmed to try. So while there actually aren't any spam posts on the board, there is an ongoing attempt at such.
Where is the mechanism found in phpbb that automatically deflates the qa_confirm table? While it sounds like I can manually purge the table (thank you guys for confirmation that is a possible solution), the same situation may happen in a few years. I'm thinking I missed something during an upgrade that would have taken care of that automatically.
Statistics: Posted by Chobop — Sun Dec 31, 2023 9:22 pm