remote access during runaway process

Greetings,

On a remotely hosted Linux server, a developer's code went in to deep
recursion, and all of the services on the system became unavailable,
requiring a call to the hosting provider.

I'd like to make it so ssh is still available in this situation.

After some research (I'm much more of a developer than a sysadmin myself), I
came up with putting "snice -20 sshd" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but I don't
know for sure if this would give the desired results.

Will someone please advise me as to whether this is okay or point me to the
proper solution if I am way off base?

Thanks in advance for any advice,

Todd W.


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