SPAM moderation slows down site

[icarito]

What happened just before the problem occurred

The site was down briefly because of heavy load. "joyofsoy" on #publiclab reported believing his spam moderation was the culprit, as he was opening ~20 tabs to handle spam moderation.

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[joyofsoy]

I used search to find maps that mention "viagra" (there are a lot of spam posts about viagra!). Because the spam and trash buttons on the admin view aren't functioning, I tried opening the search results in individual tabs to manually delete the maps, but the site stopped responding after ~20 tabs.

[icarito]

Thanks! From the cloud side I observed high RAM use, probably this caused the hang.

But I couldn't single out in Skylight which was the problematic API route.