SMF Files Increase in Size Over Time

[SeaChaser]

I have a small forum, ArimaOwners.com that is about 27GB. Over time, it grows to over 50GB which is my limit on CrocWeb. As a result, it often locks up. Lately it only takes a few weeks to get there.

I run file maintenance on the attachments and this brings it back down to 27GB. Is there a way to diagnose this?

As a side note, Today I got hit with bots and had 47,000 guests online and it was growing by the minute. I have changed the viewers to members only. Normally, I only have about 300 guests on at any one time. I don't know if this is causing the file memory problem.

I did find a support ticket on the guest/bot issue here on SMF which may be unrelated to the file growth issue. I will have to wait and see if this fixed the issue. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Crocweb support is very good, David or Steve should be able to help you with this.

[gobi]

bots, we had the same issue, right now I had 3.5 mill hits in last 24hrs, mostly from brazil, you can geo block