Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261578AbTIKWQF (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:16:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261581AbTIKWQF (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:16:05 -0400 Received: from node-d-1ea6.a2000.nl ([62.195.30.166]:13554 "EHLO laptop.fenrus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261578AbTIKWQB (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:16:01 -0400 Subject: Re: Size of Tasks during ddos From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Mike Fedyk Cc: Alan Cox , Breno , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Stan Bubrouski , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030911212341.GB26618@matchmail.com> References: <001b01c39047$d65cf580$f8e4a7c8@bsb.virtua.com.br> <20030911002755.GA13177@triplehelix.org> <3F5FD993.2060900@ccs.neu.edu> <009201c37860$f0d3c5f0$131215ac@poslab219> <200309111419.h8BEJbSo010948@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <009f01c3788a$08b7f780$9f0210ac@forumci.com.br> <1063305670.3605.0.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030911212341.GB26618@matchmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-u0a/hi4gkXbp5hK4wpHB" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-Id: <1063318539.5021.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 (1.4.4-4) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:15:40 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1015 Lines: 32 --=-u0a/hi4gkXbp5hK4wpHB Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 23:23, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 07:41:10PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >=20 > And why isn't this on by default when it's compiled in? there's several reasons; one of them is a bit cheap: a webserver benchmark done by a journalist looks a lot like a DoS in this respect ;) --=-u0a/hi4gkXbp5hK4wpHB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/YPQLxULwo51rQBIRAsnzAKCM00hooGc2GZbtwRA7gJ8zPM/MrgCfQZK+ CquhszZcp4uVnvswC8KIpsk= =6K4r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-u0a/hi4gkXbp5hK4wpHB-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/