Re: our i386 hack to block stack overflows ..

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:12:16AM -0700, Bob Beck wrote:
> in Emacs v 21... blocking stack overflows is important. if you care

...or run a different OS.

But then again, perhaps the performance concerns should be taken more seriously. While we are at it, I can think of a LOT of other performance problems with OpenBSD. For one, why does OpenSSH use encryption? I know you can turn it off, but it is such a big performance hit, it should really be off by default. I just heard about this command: rsh. It sounds a lot like OpenSSH, but without all that bloaty overhead. Same goes for how OpenBSD checks password hashes, file permissions, etc, etc.

Maybe someone (else, of course) could write some kernel modules to integrate all of OpenSSH into the kernel? And MySQL too! That would definitely offset some of the performance issues. Or, maybe someone (else again, since I have too much important work to do on my BLOG), could write a kernel module that gives one process full control of all system resources, and then terminates the kernel? For example, let's say I want maximum performance from Apache:

# dosit httpd -u
!! Passing System Control To httpd -u !! (Hit the RESET button to exit)

-Paul Received on Fri Jan 31 11:48:22 2003