Right, I think we are saying the same thing. Nearly no action is taken by the swarm of bots which causes the table to clear.
Two days ago I cleared the cache / emptied the table. I then waited 2 days. Today the ubbt_online table had 491,392 entries in it and the system was extremely slow. I manually cleared the cache. The table is filling right back up again. So it's not even that I can make a weekly post to stay ahead of this. I'd need to make at least a daily post / do a daily cache clear.