Re: Monitoring the death of oversized Perl processes

Make a script that run once every minute, it will have to parse the output of top -c -n 1 command and kill the scripts that uses too much memory and log some useful info in some file

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Re^2: Monitoring the death of oversized Perl processes by arthurg (Acolyte) on Mar 06, 2010 at 23:22 UTC
Interesting, but not reliable. By the time a 'KillerScript' runs an oversized process could freeze the system so that top wouldn't run. In any case, an application should be able to control it's children processes more directly.	[reply]