Googlebot using too much bandwidth

[GnnC]

We have a situation currently where Googlebot is doing an amazing amount of activity on one of our websites, to the tune of 30-40 M per day. I am at a loss to understand why
this is occuring, and hope you have some idea.

The only idea I have to stop it is to add a robots.txt to ban GoogleBot from the site.

[cbp]

The critters are very active at the moment:
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=37372

Google suggest:

8. Help! Googlebot is crawling my site too fast. What can I do?

Please send an email to googlebot@google.com with the name of your site and a detailed description of the problem. Please also include a portion of the weblog that shows Google accesses, so we can track down the problem more quickly on our end.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmas...q.html#toofast

CBP