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    Re: posting weirdness —Todd Lehman
   (...) No, nothing has changed in the web interface for posting since November 3. The good news here is that I see several HTTP processes each trying to use 100% of the CPU -- and collectiving using up several minutes of CPU. They seem to be hung. (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: posting weirdness —Todd Lehman
   (...) OK, please try again now! (...) Whew! Thank you so much for finding and reporting this! I'm not sure yet[1] if this was a stupidly written regex on my part or bona fide bug in perl's[2] regex engine. Either way, the post you submitted caused (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: posting weirdness —Dan Boger
   (...) yah, that's what it looks like to me. Since it would match any newline, and start adding up the whitespace until it found the beginning of a new paragraph. it'll backtrack to the next blank line, try again, and fail once more.... if you have (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: posting weirdness —Todd Lehman
   (...) It's actually infinitely worse than that. The NFA it produced actually had exponential performance, so it would try to do it 2^80 (2 raised to the 80th power) times, which would take about 302,200,000,000,000,000 seconds or about ten thousand (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

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