Re: Re: Limiting Cpu usage

On Sun, April 10, 2005 10:55 am, zini10 said: > Thought about that, but its a free host that will host many many users.ill > prefer them to have low cpu usage limit also if the system is free of > tasks > as that will never happen. > any user can come, prepare a script which will do a infinite loop and will > make the server slow for all other users. > thought about timeouts but the user can refresh and refresh the page for > ever. > the only idea other than limit cpu usage is to check for users which use > to > much cpu power for too long, and block them for running any script at all, > but an "Evil" user can signup many many times. Giving all and sundry un-trusted users access to PHP is akin to passing out free loaded hand-guns to every gang-banger, convicted criminal, and child under the age of 12. Don't do that. :-| Not everybody is as nice as you. Sorry. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm