On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:13 PM, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > On Apr 30, 10:06 pm, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Apr 30, 8:54 pm, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > <SNIP> > >> > Is this reproducible? >> >> Apparently not: I've been trying to get it again, but unsuccessfully. > > Yeah, my experience is that that code is inherently racy and no one > has even been able to reproduce it. I don't see it on sage.math at > all, but I am also use a RAM disk for DOT_SAGE, so I think that has > something to do with it. > >> John > > It looks like we should consider merging "#5952: Worksheet downloading > blocks the entire server" since otherwise you can trivially DOS the > whole server.
> Maybe that option should be disabled per default for > now? No patch has been posted and I am not 100% sure RobertWB is > working on a patch. Comments? I could easily DOS any sage notebook server right now in many ways, which I won't list here since I don't want to give anybody any ideas. #5952 only stops the server *while* the directories with the worksheets are being tar'd up -- once that filesystem operation finishes, things go back to being nonblocking. > I have also found another trivial documentation formatting problem for > the Victor Miller basis, so I would like that patch (which I should > post shortly at #5953) to go in since it basically adds a could ":" > and a few newline in a few places. > > But other than that the deep freeze for 3.4.2 stays in effect :) > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
