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Yes, and this would have been the correct way to fix the situation. Gracefully reduce the available CPU for the offending VPS, and notify the customer. Breaki
by Andys 17y ago
Yes, and this would have been the correct way to fix the situation. Gracefully reduce the available CPU for the offending VPS, and notify the customer.
Breaking in is OK as a last resort.
- lsc 17y agoPersonally, I think freezing the domain is preferable to logging in and killing a (likely rather important) process. But then, the discussion is academic. I've never had to shut down a domain to prevent heavy legitimate or runaway process use from harming other users. I have shut down many domains to stop abuse, but that's a very different thing. If you want to examine a compromised disk, you are best off doing so booting off of read-only media then carefully examining the compromised partition, so you want it shut down anyhow.