On 6/30/11, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote: > I actually relied for a while on the last choice. I had a remotely > accessible root shell that never logged out. When things got sluggish, > I was able to /bin/kill to my heart's content. It wasn't a pretty > solution, but it kept me running until I was able to solve the problem > properly. Would this work without the OOB hardware? E.g. if I leave a detached screen'd SSH session open from another server, then ionice + nice that shell on the problem server?