On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > 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? I wouldn't rely on that setup. In my case, the problem server was connected to a Digi console server via its serial port. On another (non-problematic server), I opened a screen session and connected to the console on the problem server. I had to adjust some timeouts here and there to ensure an eternal console. :-) -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/