It used to be that on a large memory 32-bit compute server, no singleprocess could run away and exhaust all of the machine's memory. On aneight or sixteen gigabyte machine, processes ran into the 3 gigabyte(max) or so limit on per-process virtual address space well before theycould run the machine itself into the ground.

(On a large enough machine you could survive a couple of suchprocesses.)

This is no longer true on 64-bit large memory compute

The more I look at Fibrechannel's competitors , the more attractive Fibrechannel looks. Afterall, FC's only real problem is that it costs a lot of money, and eventhat may be changing as FC vendors come to their senses; we recentlygot a quite reasonable quote from a storage vendor.

(Well, FC switch vendors are still insane, but if you are willing togo for second-hand equipment you can apparently get 1 and 2 gigabit FCswitches for quite cheap as people upgrade to 4

This week, we:

• got 10,541 messages from 243 different IP addresses.
• handled 22,006 sessions from 1,956 different IP addresses.
• received 515,114 connections from at least 130,401 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 10 connections being checked at once.

Connection volume has jumped significantly from last week and session volume is up, which suggests thatour simplistic greylisting stuff is no longer working quite