On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:08:41 -0700 (PDT) > From: Matthew Dillon <dil...@apollo.backplane.com> > To: Kevin Day <toa...@home.dragondata.com> > Cc: ha...@rah.star-gate.com, d...@dv.ru, gr...@unixhelp.org, > freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: DoS from local users (fwd) > > A user-run CGI is another example. Say you have a web server which runs > CGI's under a user id. If the web site is loaded down and the user > happens > to run a log processing script, execs of the user's CGIs might slow down > due to the load balancing 'feature'. The web server may now wind up in > the > situation where it is forking CGIs faster then it can retire them. > Leading > to another cascade failure. > Make it configurable then... Dmitry. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
