hosted machine and load average

[sammy ominsky]

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