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[yash101]

Kind of off topic:
I placed a link to my forum (devstuff.no-ip.info/forum/) and said how wimpy it was (it runs on a raspberry pi). Apparently, the forum members are so helpful, they DoSed it! After reviewing the log files and other stuff, I found out that it was just because it was overloaded with requests. That gave me an idea of where I need to patch it up and now I am working on adding a maximum processes limit that will prevent apache from hogging all the resources from the kernel. The funny thing was that this time, the crash was so severe, even my UART connection was useless for degugging . That made me do a hard reset . I do not think that that is a problem to the forum, but admins, you may want to place a resource cap to prevent the server from hogging all the resources, causing a kernel panic. I wish that there was a way to recover the logs from the kernel panic. However, that isn't safe as writing to the disk after the computer has crashed is VERY risky!