Re: comment on HARD_SERVER_LIMIT in httpd.h

[Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>]

Since no one has followed up on this, perhaps a patch will make people see
what a silly little thing this is that can be fixed in 2 seconds. 

Index: httpd.h
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RCS file: /home/marcs/archive/apache/cvs/apache/src/httpd.h,v
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diff -c -r1.78 httpd.h
*** httpd.h	1997/01/01 18:10:23	1.78
--- httpd.h	1997/01/05 17:50:38
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*** 217,225 ****
   * We keep a hard maximum number of servers, for two reasons --- first off,
   * in case something goes seriously wrong, we want to stop the fork bomb
   * short of actually crashing the machine we're running on by filling some
!  * kernel table (I was originally going to make this 256, but it turns out
!  * that that would actually fill the process table on reasonably configured
!  * machines).  Secondly, it keeps the size of the scoreboard file small
   * enough that we can read the whole thing without worrying too much about
   * the overhead.
   */
--- 218,224 ----
   * We keep a hard maximum number of servers, for two reasons --- first off,
   * in case something goes seriously wrong, we want to stop the fork bomb
   * short of actually crashing the machine we're running on by filling some
!  * kernel table.  Secondly, it keeps the size of the scoreboard file small
   * enough that we can read the whole thing without worrying too much about
   * the overhead.
   */

On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Marc Slemko wrote:

> src/httpd.h still reads:
> 
> /* Limit on the total --- clients will be locked out if more servers than
>  * this are needed.  It is intended solely to keep the server from crashing
>  * when things get out of hand.
>  *
>  * We keep a hard maximum number of servers, for two reasons --- first off,
>  * in case something goes seriously wrong, we want to stop the fork bomb
>  * short of actually crashing the machine we're running on by filling some
>  * kernel table (I was originally going to make this 256, but it turns out
>  * that that would actually fill the process table on reasonably configured
>  * machines).  Secondly, it keeps the size of the scoreboard file small
>  * enough that we can read the whole thing without worrying too much about
>  * the overhead.
>  */
> #define HARD_SERVER_LIMIT 256
> 
> HARD_SERVER_LIMIT was bumped up a while ago, but the note about it
> not being 256 wasn't removed/modified.
> 
>