screen sessions and such are OK, if they are being used to keep your sessions to other hosts open. They aren't OK if they are being used to run long-running processes. I'm assuming you're doing the former and not the latter ;).
- Ryan On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > ok, please don't kill my screens, I <3 them :3 > > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Ryan Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We've recently had a problem where a cron running on the bastion host was >> consuming all memory and killing ssh sessions. The bastion host is not >> meant to be used for anything other than an ssh bastion. That means the >> only thing you should be running on that host is ssh. >> >> We're disabling cron and at on bastion hosts. We'll also occasionally >> kill any process running that shouldn't be running on them. We've done that >> today. >> >> If you're looking for a place to run a cron, irc bot, etc, then we can >> find a project that's appropriate, or create a project for you. >> >> - Ryan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Labs-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > >
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