<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>inline, irrelevant part of conversation snipped<br><br>On Feb 26, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Janko Mivšek <<a href="mailto:janko.mivsek@eranova.si">janko.mivsek@eranova.si</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><span>First let me note that such crash we had very rarely, once or twice in</span><br><span>few years since this image runs. So, if this wont repeat much, I simply</span><br><span>wouldn't spend much time on it. If it starts to repeat, then of course</span><br><span>we need to react.</span><br></div></blockquote><div>Am I conflating two different issues that we've seen with the site? For some reason I thought this happened more often than that.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>But if the client (like wget command) sends requests repeately without</span><br><span>the cookie, a session is created for every request and this can grow up</span><br><span>memory fast.</span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005001"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3"><br></font></font></div></blockquote>Ah, now I see why you're thinking DOS. How long does an orphaned session live?<div><br></div><div>If we got hit really hard by a lot of requests all at once, would we be able to tell by examining the Apache logs?</div><div><br></div><div>What evidence might Aida leave in the image, if any?</div></body></html>