hosted machine and load average

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Sammy,
Watch is good and nice, but Watchdog main purpose is to reboot the
server if something wrong happens. Thats not what I'm looking for.

Hetz

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:40 PM, sammy ominsky <s at avoidant.org> wrote:
> On 17/09/2009, at 22:33, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>
>> I tried to ssh it today.. no go. I could ping it, but none of the
>> services were accessible: http, ssh, etc..
>
>> Sep 17 12:58:11 hetz sendmail[2707]: rejecting connections on daemon
>> MTA: load average: 140
>>
>> So my question: What do you do in case you have the same scenario?
>> what steps do you take to prevent things like that from happening?
>
> Watchdog?
>
> --sambo
>
>



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