I was logged into my SSH as root and the connection kept dying out. It happened several times and the loads started to shoot up. I'm sure its because of those ssh sessions that have'nt been terminated as yet.

Whats the best way to terminate a previous SSH Session?

Thanks.

kill the process

ps afx | grep ssh, kill the process.
Having multiple ssh session should affect the load on the server the way you described.

Originally posted by datums
ps afx | grep ssh, kill the process.
Having multiple ssh session should affect the load on the server the way you described.

chances are they'll kill off the parent process and lock themself out of the box.

try `ps afxu |egrep <youruserID>|egrep ssh` and kill of those processes. This command will exclude the Root owned parent processes.

Thanks eBoundary, thinking local.

Not sure if I understood that correctly. Can you please list the commands step-by-step.

Thanks