gatling success story

Felix von Leitner <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Feb 2004 02:08:59 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.fnord
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I think it's time I open up a gatling mailing list.  Maybe tomorrow.
Anyway, emule.de has been under a denial of service attack recently, the
case has received widespread publicity in German media.  A trojaned
emule client was spread, which attacks emule.de with a lot of HTTP
requests when run.  I just replaced their apache with gatling on
emule.de and now the brunt of the attack is running against a brick
wall.  The box is hosting a few different domains and web sites as well,
with dynamic content, which so far is only victim of the attack at a
much lesser extent.  Anyway, the box still has a load of 40 to 100 and
is really unresponsive, except for the gatling which churns out pages
nicely ;-)

Anyway, I think I should add FastCGI support before adding SMB or NFS
support.  Who has any experience with FastCGI?  If I supported FastCGI,
they could switch completely to gatling and their problem would be gone
completely.  Who would be willing to help with this endeavour?

Felix