On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:09:53PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
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> Anyone thought of implementing this, similar to how sendmail does it? If
> load > n, refuse connections?
> ...
> If nobody is working on something like this, does anyone but me feel that
> it has merit to make use of? I'll play with it if so ...
I agree that it would be useful. Even more useful would be soft load
shedding, where once some load average level is exceeded the postmaster
delays a bit (proportionately) before accepting a connection.
Nathan Myers
ncm@zembu.com
