Re: nastygram from xxx.lanl.gov

Aaron Nabil (nabil@teleport.com)
Tue, 9 Jul 1996 23:17:42 -0700 (PDT)

Rob Hartill writes...
> bolav@skiinfo.no wrote:
>
> >> 459 HEAD requests produce 459 server child-forks. Many of the requests
> >> will operate in papallel. If the server has an upper limit in forking maybe
> >> the site will be saved, else the paging volume will be full.
> >
> >With a two minute delay between each HEAD?
> >I don't think so.
>
> Think again.
>
> At 2 minute intervals xxx.lanl.gov can become overloaded.
>
> YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THESE URLs DO. DON'T MAKE IGNORANT ASSUMPTIONS.
>
> The HEAD requests at 2 minute intervals to xxx.lanl.gov cause scripts
> to run which take more than 2 minutes to finish. Pile them up and the
> thing melts down.

The URL's at that site come back in well under a fraction of a second (there
is a typical one below). Are you saying that not only does the http server
send you a document, in then, after the document is sent, launches some
kind of job that then sits spinning in the background for two minutes?

Here is one of their URL's... http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-ph/9606274

Oh, and here's one for your homepage, it's certainly going on mine!

http://xxx.lanl.gov/seek-and-destroy

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