David Suna wrote on Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:12 +0300: > I am working on a VPS. Earlier today there was a load spike that made > the server unresponsive for a period of time (around 10-15 minutes). > Both ssh and web access were not responsive. After a while the problem > just stopped and the server started responding again. > > How can I go about diagnosing what caused the problem?
It might help to keep an ssh session open throughout the day with a root shell (real '#' prompt, not just sudoable unprivileged shell) running in it; such a shell might be usable even when the CPU contention is so high that new ssh logins aren't possible. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
