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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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