Am Mi, den 01.09.2004 schrieb Mauri Sahlberg um 16:57: > Twice comment-spammer has managed to bring our small server first to > it's knees and then to it's belly? We are running postgresql, apache > and serendipity. Today and yesterday this combination with very rapid > repeated loading of serendipity comment-function (GET > /comment.php?serendipity[entry_id]=9&serendipity[type]=comments > HTTP/1.0" 200 3708 "http://12.163.72.13/"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; > MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" > ) has managed to eat every scrap of memory there is? All I could do > was to boot the server. > > Is my diagnosis of the out of memory correct one? What can I do to > avoid this happening again? Any ideas? Limit resources usage with ulimit in the init script of services or better by settings in /etc/security/limits.conf. That will not protect specific services but the server stability in whole. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp Serendipity 20:24:03 up 2 days, 17:40, load average: 0.69, 0.65, 0.64
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