From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 10 15:13: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from xkis.kis.ru (xkis.kis.ru [195.98.32.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7874B14CC6 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 15:12:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dv@dv.ru) Received: from localhost (dv@localhost) by xkis.kis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.0) with SMTP id CAA22567; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 02:10:28 +0400 (MSD) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 02:10:27 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Valdov X-Sender: dv@xkis.kis.ru To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Kevin Day , hasty@rah.star-gate.com, green@unixhelp.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DoS from local users (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199904102108.OAA01678@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:08:41 -0700 (PDT) > From: Matthew Dillon > To: Kevin Day > 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