Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 02:10:27 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Valdov <dv@dv.ru> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, green@unixhelp.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DoS from local users (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.990411020955.20935C-100000@xkis.kis.ru> In-Reply-To: <199904102108.OAA01678@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:08:41 -0700 (PDT) > From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> > To: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> > Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, dv@dv.ru, green@unixhelp.org, > freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: DoS from local users (fwd) > > A user-run CGI is another example. Say you have a web server which runs > CGI's under a user id. If the web site is loaded down and the user happens > to run a log processing script, execs of the user's CGIs might slow down > due to the load balancing 'feature'. The web server may now wind up in the > situation where it is forking CGIs faster then it can retire them. Leading > to another cascade failure. > Make it configurable then... Dmitry. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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