Re: ulimits

[Thiemo Nagel <thiemonagel@gmx.de>]

Hello,

> Recently a friend of mine was kind enough to hit refresh 700 times after
> requesting a depth 5 recursive validation from the validator on my web
> server. It's load levels went to above 150, hehe. Took me a couple of
> minutes to log in, and a couple to su to root, and more than 5 minutes
> to get the "killall validate.cgi" command executed. Quite amazing that
> the machine survived it all. GNU/Linux rules! ;)

How about running apache with higher nice value than sshd? - That should
make your login faster when load is high, though it is not a solution to
the underlying problem.

Thiemo


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