#linux #asknostr

Is there a way to give certain processes priority if memory gets bogged down?

E.g., I'd like the ssh server to always have top priority on a headless device, so if some other processes are bogging things down, I can still "get in" to fix things.

On my raspberrypi 4 running umbrel, it seems like things get bogged down and ssh server is the first thing to go. I can ping the device just fine--but ssh connection just gets refused.

...or is this "not how any of this works"?