So I was trying to re-setup my photo gallery on my server, and one of the steps was to re-import the 10's of 1000's of pictures that I have. That just runs by a script called by the gallery program. However, when it is running that, my server is then otherwise rendered non-operational. I started the procedure about 12 hours ago, and I still can't access anything on the server.
I am wondering if there is a way to lower apache2's priority such that ssh can still get (so I can stop said script if things break). Are there any "best practice" web server techniques that I should know about with reference to this? My server is an Athlon xp 2400 with 512mb RAM so it's not like it's completely outdated. It's run everything I've thrown at it without a problem, actually.
So yeah, any ideas/thoughts/comments?