Avoiding the OOM Killer by limiting the number of Apache2 processes and clients
Prologue Last week I had the following mortifying experience: I tried to ssh into my box hosted at RackSpace and nothing happened. It simply hung, and never prompted me for my password. Commence panic. I determined that port 22 was, in fact, open, and I was connecting to the machine at some point.
nc -zw3 monicalent.com 22 Connection to monicalent.com 22 port [tcp/ssh] succeeded! telnet monicalent.
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