SSHD flaky

[damonp]

SSHD seems to be very flaky. Clients cannot connect with any regularity. Let alone SFTP a whole site in.

Logs show:

Oct  1 13:08:27 xxxxx xinetd[17886]: ssh: fork failed: Cannot allocate memory (errno = 12)

Cannot start or restart SSH from DA panel.

An error has occurred

Details

/sbin/service sshd restart 2>&1

SSH is also being run out of xinetd.d.

service ssh
{
        disable    = no
        socket_type  = stream
        protocol  = tcp
        instances  = 10
        wait  = no
        user  = root
        server  = /usr/sbin/sshd
        server_args  = -i
        cps = 2 10
}

This is a two week old DA installed kit on a new VPS running RH ES4.

Is this a VPS problem allocating memory or a DA problem?

Thanks for any ideas

 

[LawsHosting]

Its no doubt a VPS issue, I have a VPS with 207mb in total (8gig node shares 30 VPS's).. I thought VPS's were a good idea but they arent, IP Tables fails on mine lol...... I have 2 dedi's also, 1gig and 2gig........ Guess which doesnt fall over..........yes, the dedi's......
I cant wait to scrap the VPS......coz I'm paying the equivilent of a 2gig twin cpu dedi