[Citadel Development] (no subject)

[Freakdog]

Mon 12 Feb 2007 08:15:40 AM EST from fl...@uncnsrd (Uncensored)


I mentioned this idea elsewhere, but in case anyone else wanted to comment...

Uncensored has lately had this problem where, occasionally, people cannot log in due to a DoS event.

The event usually seems to involve someone logging into Uncensored multiple times through the web client.

This consumes so many sessions that Citadel hits its limit, and prevents any new sessions from being created.

We don't know the cause, but it seems to me that we could probably arrive at a partial solution: provide a limit to the number of sessions a user may create. When exceeded, you could either close the earliest session for that user, or simply not allow the new session.

I had a similar issue, recently, but over POP3.  Didn't quite fill up my session limit, but my system load was up pretty high.