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<div style="">The keywords you want are "nice", "ionice" and "renice".<br>
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The conceptual bit that you are likely missing is that you don't want to run SSH at a higher priority, you probably want to run Apache at a LOWER priority. For some reason that I'm sure others can describe, Linux priorities are backwards from what you'd expect.<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF608139"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><b>From:</b> cialug-bounces@cialug.org [cialug-bounces@cialug.org] on behalf of Kenneth Younger [kenny@sheerfocus.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 27, 2011 16:39<br>
<b>To:</b> Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Cialug] Guarantee SSH availability<br>
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<div>I had a sever crush under load the other day, so much so that it made SSHing into the box impossible. There's got to be a way to keep that admin tool available until the end, right?<br>
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A cursory search of google found nothing - of course I might be using the wrong keywords...<br clear="all">
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