Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:46:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, bright@rush.net, dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, jon@oaktree.co.uk, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907140045180.96614-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199907140025.RAA82339@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> There are other ways. For example, even if a user account is resource
> limited, root processes (such as sendmail, popper, identd, and so forth)
> are not. Attacks against these servers generally result in very high
> loads and sometimes make it difficult to login to fix the problem, but do
> not result in running out of swap.
Inetd is rate-limited by default nowadays, so this really doesn't apply.
>
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
> <dillon@backplane.com>
>
>
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