Ssh sessions running top keep disconnecting

[bob prohaska]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 08:15:43PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
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> On 2020-Jun-24, at 17:41, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 11:56:34PM +0000, Robert Crowston wrote:
> >> To debug, you can launch a debug sshd instance with ???sshd -ddd -p 12345??? (or whatever alternative port you like) and your ssh client with ???ssh -vvv -p 12345 bob at whatever???.
> >> 
> > 
> > The Pi3B was given a USB mechanical hard disk for a boot device, and the
> > top disconnects magically stopped........
> 
> You might want to also specify what was in use before
> the USB-mechanical-disk was in use for this. Any other
> differences in configuration?

In hindsight, three: New disk, fresh snapshot of -current and
an upgrade to the latest u-boot. The old boot device was a
128 GB Samsung microSD that had gotten slow and full. The new 
disk is a 1 TB Seagate Barracuda with a JMicron USB-SATA bridge.

That somewhat obscures the actual cause........

Thanks for reading!

bob prohaska