[CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

[Emmanuel Noobadmin]

On 6/30/11, rainer at ultra-secure.de <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:
> Unfortunately, all this does not matter at all.
> The problem is: sshd is swapped out and the system needs to swap-out
> something else first, before it can take sshd back in.

There appears to be some functions available to programs to lock their
process pages in memory, mlock and mlockall. But I can't seem to find
a command line equivalent that might be able to keep sshd locked into
memory.

In any case, I've ionice and renice sshd and see if that would help.