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An open connection with no communication going on does not take away a lot of resources, it's just some values in some table maintained by the TCP stack. If you
by catdog 9y ago
An open connection with no communication going on does not take away a lot of resources, it's just some values in some table maintained by the TCP stack. If you implement that slow down service event based so it can handle a lot of concurrent connections it should not take away much resources either. In the end you can always limit the amount of connections you treat that way to a value your system can easily bear.
- DamonHD 9y agoThis was exactly what I did for a while, and I was able to tie up tens or hundreds of SPAMmer connections without hurting myself, on quite a small mail server.