Re: [Slightly OT] How good is the mod_dosevasive default

2009-06-12 Thread Elison Smith
10:00 AM, Elison Smith wrote: > > I am planning to put up a website which, like any other website, may get > DoS attacked. I have installed mod_dosevasive to protect against some degree > of application-layer DoS. > > I understand that here are the default settings of mod_dosev

[Slightly OT] How good is the mod_dosevasive default

2009-06-12 Thread Elison Smith
I am planning to put up a website which, like any other website, may get DoS attacked. I have installed mod_dosevasive to protect against some degree of application-layer DoS. I understand that here are the default settings of mod_dosevasive - ( http://www.theserverpages.com/articles/servers/linux

Re: Loadtesting tools ?

2009-06-08 Thread Elison Smith
Thanks everyone, for your responses! I will try these tools out. 2009/6/3 Jérôme Renard > Hello, > > Sorin Manolache a écrit : > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 19:41, Elison Smith >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> (I realize that this questio

Loadtesting tools ?

2009-06-03 Thread Elison Smith
Hello, (I realize that this question is not an exact fit for this mailing list) I have a website that runs Apache 2.x. I want to loadtest this site. I want to loadtest with as much as 50-100 requests per second. Any pointers to tools/ online services ? I am happy to pay for a tool that can do

apr_global_mutex_lock() failing with "permission denied"

2009-03-20 Thread Elison Smith
I am using shared memory to share some data between my module instances in Apache child processes, and apr_global_mutex_t to achieve mutually-exclusive reads and writes. In a post_config_hook, I create the mutex using apr_global_mutex_create() and then reopen it inside each child process by calli