MyBB Community Forums

http://d.pr/i/RrP7

That is the screen shot from my WHM.

For some reason my myBB forum makes my VPS load go really high, and the provider keeps complaining. Today morning I log on to investigate and I see that.

What is misc.php doing

I suspended my site, my VPS load went back to 0.13, as soon as I unsuspend it, the Misc.php starts acting up and causing high load right away (EVEN THOUGH NO USERS ARE EVEN ON THE FORUM as I just unsuspended it)

Edit: more recent screen shot http://d.pr/i/DmyI

Could you list your plugins please? misc.php isn't used for that many functions in the core.

I added define("NO_PLUGINS", "1"); inside init.php and watched the vps for the last 10min, load still high due to misc.php

I'm pretty sure my forums are not compromised, as only I have access to it, and no one has logged in besides me to my VPS

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http://d.pr/i/wdy3+

My sites the only one running on the VPS


Plugins :
http://d.pr/i/vug8

http://d.pr/i/z6bf

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Edit: I have deleted the misc.php file (I saved a backup copy of it),

And my server load is perfectly normal now.

misc.php isn't showing up in whm either.

I have no idea what is wrong.

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Edit:

So when I remove misc.php with all plugins disabled, load goes to normal ( less than 1.0 at all times),
As soon as I upload misc.php, the load starts going high again within seconds.

Is there any chance you might have somebody else accessing the file (check the access logs)? Just uploading the file to the server should cause a spike in load.

I enabled all plugins and disabled them one by one.

Turned out it was Online24 that was causing the issue. Server load has been normal since I disabled that.

It looks fine for now. Not sure why Online24 was sending requests to misc.php even though I disabled all plugins in init.php

And I checked logs, no one has access but me.

I have no experience with that plugin so I can't really say whether it does utilize misc.php or not or whether it was the cause. Glad you seem to have found a solution though!