hosted machine and load average

[sammy ominsky]

You can make it do other things too, like kill or restart processes.

--sambo

On 18/09/2009, at 00:29, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> 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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