[Labs-l] The bastion host is only meant as an ssh bastion

[Silke Meyer]

Yay, thanks for finding and solving the problem!
Best, Silke


Am 27.11.2012 19:58, schrieb Ryan Lane:
> 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 <benapetr at gmail.com
> <mailto:benapetr at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     ok, please don't kill my screens, I <3 them :3
> 
> 
>     On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane at wikimedia.org
>     <mailto:rlane at wikimedia.org>> 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
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