On 23 Jun 2009, at 13:25, Neelesh Gurjar wrote:

MaxClients 150

So slowloris only needs to make 150 connections to tie up your server!

A simple raise to, say, 1500, would prevent a single slowloris machine
bringing you down[1].  Though of course you're still vulnerable to DDoS:
for that you might want to raise it higher and use traffic management.

[1] for any of the machines I've tried it on -
http://bahumbug.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/slowloris/

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Nick Kew

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