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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.



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