Return-Path: owner-new-httpd Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.10/8.6.5) id EAA25472; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 04:08:30 -0800 Received: from cass41 by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.10/8.6.5) with SMTP id EAA25390; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 04:06:59 -0800 Received: from cass00.ast.cam.ac.uk by cass41 with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #9) id m0roVMt-00004UC; Tue, 14 Mar 95 12:06 GMT Received: by cass00.ast.cam.ac.uk (Smail3.1.29.1 #9) id m0roVMs-0006j3C; Tue, 14 Mar 95 12:06 GMT Message-Id: Date: Tue, 14 Mar 95 12:06 GMT From: drtr@ast.cam.ac.uk (David Robinson) To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: CERTifiable nightmare Content-Length: 561 Sender: owner-new-httpd@hyperreal.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Rob wrote: >I just switched off the CERT security patch in apache-pre > >It was making my disk grind horribly and slowing responses down by >~ 30% > >Have we decided which 'fix' to use for this problem ? >The CERT patch is a nightmare for a busy server without >enormous amount of RAM to *waste*. There may be a relatively simple solution; most of this memory is going on static storage to hold 8Kb for every config variable. I think these can safely be kept at the shorter length. It would probably involve changing quite a few source files, though. David.