From: Graham Chiu
> My ISP has again shut down my vanilla script, and rebol, 
> as there were 150 processes running :(
> 
> Anyone else having this problem.  They're running Solaris 
> sparq ... and I thought I was running latest core.
> 
> I had thought adding 'Quit to vanilla.r had solved the 
> problem.  Since most of these processes were most likely 
> spawned by bots crawling the site, I've now altered 
> .htaccess to exclude them all.  Bye bye googlebot! Hello, 
> anonymity :(

Hi, Graham,

I had not run across that sort of problem since the REBOL 2.0 and 2.1 era, so that 
does seem odd and interesting.

One idea that occurs to me is just a bit of extra control and logging.  I recall 
someone a year and a half ago showing how one gets the PID (process ID) from within 
REBOL (maybe Bo or Gregg???).  It was easy; I just can't remember it.  What if each 
time a script started up, it logged the time and its PID to a log file.  It also would 
read this log file and scan for PIDs that had been running for more than x amount of 
time and kill those.  It might keep you ISP happier if that could be made to work.  
Just a thought....

For my own edification, I ask out of ignorance why a robot spawned script process 
would be left running and not a "legitimately" spawned one?  Is there some essential 
web property that I seem to be forgetting?

--Scott Jones
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