I also wrote a program [out of crafty need] to flood-post inside similar
chats. I tried it using my own webserver--the HTTP request nevertheless
probably didn't mean anything, but when I started the program, first of all,
nothing was happening--only about two httpd processes fork()'ed, and it was
pretty much frozen--hitting CTRL-C or CTRL-\ killed the flood program, and
also seemed to flush all the previous requests the flood program had
submitted--thus giving me a nice thrash.
It stabilized after a while, after all requests had been answered.
I tried the same thing with port 25 (sendmail, nevertheless an HTTP request
meant *nothing* to sendmail), with similar results--not much happened, no
sendmail's were fork()'ed, the spammer process was sitting there. I hit
CTRL-C on the spammer program, and sendmail must have fork()'ed at least 20
times to fulfill the requests--but during the time of the freezup when
sendmail wasn't doing anything nor vspam, I couldn't type anything at the
command line of any of my consoles. Presumably disk access freezup?
Thanks
-Eric
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