On  9 Aug, John Klos wrote:

> So my question is this: what is the simplest, most elegant way to have a
> system task run when the load average gets too high? 
Log in via the console tty? (What is preferably connected to a terminal
server.) There are some % of space in the process table reseved for
root. So at least if your jobs running non-root, you should be able to
log in. 
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tschuess,
          Jochen

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