[Speedycgi-users] limiting memory usage for PHP as CGI

[Florian E. <fl...@ar...>]

Hello PHP users,

I have PHP running as CGI with Apache 2.0.49 on Linux 2.4.26 here, and with
a huge PHP file involving some diagram creation, I can "kill" the machine if
I re-load the
script for five seconds continuously. It soaks up all my memory and runs for
nearly a minute multiple times. I've tried to limit that via php.ini's
memory limit setting and via Apache's RLimitCPU/RLimitNPROC/RLimitMEM
directive, but it does not seem to work.

Do you have any idea of what can be done in order to protect myself from
such an "attack"?

Thanks!
Florian