On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 13:19, Pierre van Rooden wrote: > That is more a performance/cloud design issue than a bug. If someone > uploads 250 MB pdfs and then complains that his system can't handle it, > is that a bug? If the system crashes, it is a bug. The system should be stable enough to handle such kind of misusage of the system. MMBase should never do anything that would make that system crash.
I agree on the fact that a lot of case's are difficult to handle, but if we can detect such -possible- DOS attack's, i think we should check on it, and consider it a very large bug. > However I do need a place where we can document hacks, because I can see > numerous questions popping up on irc/list on what this new 'max' > property is about and what should be set as an appropriate value for mr > X's database/os/jdk. As soon as someone has a error message with it, and it was a reasonable request, we should higher this limit. Maybe somebody with a large database is prepared to test the current settings and modify them so they have a reasonable value? -- Eduard Witteveen Systeem Ontwikkelaar Publieke Omroep, Gateway C Kamer 101 +31(0)356772910 http://www.omroep.nl/ Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? : The sixth Satire from Juvenal
