I need to monitor for potential leaks of various resources (rss, vmem, fd, etc.) for certain processes running on a linux box, monitoring to be handled by a perl script.

I know all about how to get that information.

However, accurately detecting what is and is not a leak based on an array of values could be tricky.

For instance, some processes may be cyclical in use of certain resources, but max could irregularly increase over time and what about when the increase is only at the end of the list of values, etc.

In this case, it would be better to not have to reinvent the wheel, but I have not been able to find any such algorithms or modules via searching the web, cpan, etc.

Can anyone point me to any such algorithm(s) or contribute your thoughts to how to proceed?



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Apprentice

In reply to leak detection in other (non-perl) processes by apprentice

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