On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> On 6/30/11, Paul Heinlein <heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. :-)
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Paul Heinlein <> heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx <> http://www.madboa.com/
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