On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Ian C. Sison wrote: .. > > One guy (well, it was Slashdot, so take your chances as you wish) > > claimed that he did a test-run DoS, and it knocked down processes but > > they respawned with no noticeable dent in performance. > > And Orly posted that his apache segfaults almost always anyway due to > mod_perl bloat so duh.... i guess it's just a case of who makes the best > kind of DoS....
not really.. my httpd's segfault every once in a while. Dunno why, but it's mod_perl related, can't track it down.. prolly the persistent Oracle connection teardown at the end of an HTTP session. but the other thing is: with mod_perl and a huge bloatware like the Oracle client, one must keep the httpd children "time to live" very low (in my case 30 requests) because the Oracle client leaks memory like a sieve. And considering its 8-10MB in size (!!!) which is added to Apache's memory footprint, you WANT the httpd children to die rather quickly.. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
