Hi all,
The Tomcat developers would like to add a limit on cluster message size
to provide some protection against OOME / DoS risks.
Note: This would be a hardening measure. Clustering is designed to be
operated over a secure, trusted network where it is assumed messages are
not malicious.
The intention is to set the default limit high enough that the
significant majority of cluster users won't be impacted but low enough
to be beneficial if an excessively large message is received.
Our (educated) guess on a sensible default limit for a cluster message
is 1MB. Before implementing this limit, we wanted to request feedback
from the user community. So, if you use Tomcat's clustering, what would
be a reasonable default per message size limit for your use case?
As I typed this, a further thought occurred to me. We could initially
implement this as a soft limit that just logs a warning / request to
post to this list if a message exceeds the limit. Is that worth doing?
Thanks,
Mark
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