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Time to restore from a backup, I guess (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/shitty_sysadmin

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Bah, make a Cron job to run every second to kill the process.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fun dumb story.

One time I was running a Windows server and it would constantly run the setting sync host processes and redline the machine. It was a known bug with the OS and the patches I had applied did not fix it. It was such a high priority process I couldn't just kill it normally, so I set up a timed job to put it to sleep every 15 minutes. That solved the issue.

[–] Unforeseen 5 points 10 months ago

Cron is the process