[Opensim-users] Annoying Spammer on Openvue Grid - But why don't the objects show in abot land?

[Justin Clark-Casey]

On 18/12/13 14:32, Ai Austin wrote:
> There seem to be a number of levels to this issue... and I wonder if any need to be put in as Mantis issues.. maybe the
> devs can comment...
>
> 1. The (physical I believe) objects would have been autoreturned automatically... but all ended up clustered around the
> edge of my regions... at illegal positions (X=257 or Y=257 often).  Hence they did not show as objects in the region
> list but WERE included in the count of objects in the object count for the region.  I was able to use "delete object
> outside" to get rid of these objects as others suggested.  But this is a fundamental weakness of OpenSim that is
> obviously being exploited.

Yes, either objects need to be prevented from getting to these locations or they should be considered to be in the 
nearest land parcel, I would say.

>
> 2. When I thought I had tidied this all up, I found my grid data base had grown 50% (that means many extra GB of assets
> as each was defined by a "Blob") and the MySQL assets table still had 8000+ of the griefers objects in it, and was still
> growing at a rate of an extra 10-20 as I watched (so some emitters must have still been inworld) entries for assets that
> were not inworld... though I had deleted and returned them.  I assume this is a garbage collection issue.  But it meant
> that anyone could effectively ruin the asset server for a tidy grid. Imaging if that were done on every OSGrid region!
> I am also unsure if I can simply delete the assets for this "CreatorID" or if that would mess everything up.

You should be able simply to delete the assets if you can identify them.

But yes, this is absolutely a problem for hypergrid regions with wide-open build permissions and I'm not sure how one 
can resolve it other than by restricting build perms.

There are "delete object owner ... " and "delete object creator ..." in the OpenSimulator 0.7.6 console commands if you 
can identify the UUID used by the user.  I'm not sure what the easiest way to do this is for HG users currently or if 
some command needs to be added.

>
> 3. When I deleted the initial objects (about 2,000) I found that the [HG ASSETSERVICE] return mechanism was still
> running after 12 hours and had not finished sending them back.  Single objects being returned at a rate of one every 10
> seconds or so!  So if hundred of thousands of objects across a big grid were returned this could run for days.  That is
> not a scalable mechanism. I have already reported that on Mantis as http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=6899
>
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