[Cialug] Guarantee SSH availability

[Josh More]

The keywords you want are "nice", "ionice" and "renice".

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.



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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] on behalf of Kenneth Younger [kenny at sheerfocus.com]
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 16:39
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: [Cialug] Guarantee SSH availability

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?

A cursory search of google found nothing - of course I might be using the wrong keywords...

-Kenny

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