That is Exactly what we had happening here at my work also.
- Chris Payne On 16 Feb 2004 at 15:47, Alan Brown wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Derek Conniffe wrote: > > > I agree with you on the performance side of it - you'd never even > > consider running apache out of inetd - I don't have the levels of > > traffic to worry about the [Linux] default 40 spawned processes / 60 > > seconds. > > With 70 active phone lines I had to crank up to about 400 thanks to a > few users continually popping every 10 seconds when they expected mail, > plus most had themselves set to check every minute regardless. > > It only takes one clueless user to blow the default setting and cause a > 5 minute mini-DoS for everyone else trying to get their mail. > > -- Chris Payne Network Administrator Physical Resources Dept, University of Guelph [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (519) 824-4120 x52882 Fax: (519) 837-0581
