From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 11 08:02:15 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA19183 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 08:02:15 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA19178 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 08:02:10 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id IAA00273; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 08:02:09 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id IAA00163; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 08:01:57 -0800 Message-Id: <199511111601.IAA00163@corbin.Root.COM> To: Brian Tao cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone else think it's about time to beat a WEB server to death? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Nov 95 10:42:51 EST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 08:01:57 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >[freebsd-announce trimmed out of the Cc list] > >On Fri, 10 Nov 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: >> >> If the httpd is started from inetd, then the limit is dictated by no >> more than 256 requests in any 60 second period, unless you override >> this at inetd startup time by increasing the number of requests >> allowed per 60 seconds using a -R when you start it in the rc file. > > Someone ought to update the man page then: > > -R rate > Specifies the maximum number of times a service can > be invoked in one minute; the default is 1000. In fact I already did this: ---------------------------- revision 1.5 date: 1995/10/09 23:34:07; author: davidg; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Correct the "default rate" - it's 256/minute not 1000/minute. I overlooked this change for 2.1, however, and now it's too late. -DG