[IRCServices] Attacks on services

[Andrew Church]

>The problem they have is, that when such an attack starts,
>services after some time stop responding, making the ircd quit the link,
>and looking at the table of processes shows, that services sits there
>with 99% CPU usage, requiring kill -9 to be shut down.

     Is there any way you can look into this with gdb and see where it's
using all its CPU time?  I can try repeating the flood here but I suspect
database size is at least a part of the problem.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/