30 Jun
2011
30 Jun
'11
4:05 p.m.
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, rainer@ultra-secure.de wrote:
Steve Barnes wrote:
[...]
Or maybe having that core root tree on separate HDD and separate HDD controller.
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.
Reduce your chances of it being kicked out into swap as a result of i/o:
sysctl -q vm.swappiness=0
If that improves things, add an appropriate line into sysctl.conf.
jh