Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:57:54 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High Load cron patches - comments? Message-ID: <36AEFF42.16C1ED0D@newsguy.com> References: <199901261853.MAA15095@home.dragondata.com>
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Kevin Day wrote: > > > These patches limit the number of jobs cron will start per second, with a > initial burst, a hard limit, as well as a 'burst mode', if the number of > jobs on the 'to do list' is geting excessively high. How do you select which jobs get executed? I fear a DoS attack might be possible unless you somehow prevent a user to always get the same "place" in the execution queue. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com If you sell your soul to the Devil and all you get is an MCSE from it, you haven't gotten market rate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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