[Slightly OT] How good is the mod_dosevasive default

I am planning to put up a website which, like any other website, may get DoS attacked. I have installed mod_dosevasive to protect against some degree of application-layer DoS. I understand that here are the default settings of mod_dosevasive - (

Re: [Slightly OT] How good is the mod_dosevasive default

at 10:00 AM, Elison Smith elison.sm...@gmail.comwrote: I am planning to put up a website which, like any other website, may get DoS attacked. I have installed mod_dosevasive to protect against some degree of application-layer DoS. I understand that here are the default settings of mod_dosevasive

Re: Loadtesting tools ?

Thanks everyone, for your responses! I will try these tools out. 2009/6/3 Jérôme Renard j...@ez.no Hello, Sorin Manolache a écrit : On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 19:41, Elison Smith elison.sm...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, (I realize that this question is not an exact fit for this mailing list

Loadtesting tools ?

Hello, (I realize that this question is not an exact fit for this mailing list) I have a website that runs Apache 2.x. I want to loadtest this site. I want to loadtest with as much as 50-100 requests per second. Any pointers to tools/ online services ? I am happy to pay for a tool that can do

apr_global_mutex_lock() failing with permission denied

I am using shared memory to share some data between my module instances in Apache child processes, and apr_global_mutex_t to achieve mutually-exclusive reads and writes. In a post_config_hook, I create the mutex using apr_global_mutex_create() and then reopen it inside each child process by