Two thoughts here - not really related:

1) Checking the weblogs really doesn't do much to solve his problem, though. His problem is with CPU time being hogged by that one process. I don't think checking web logs is going to do much beyond telling him whether or not his machine has been hit with a high number of HTTP requests recently. Does that necessarily correlate with poor performance? In some cases, it seems so...but I'm not convinced that web hits alone are going to grind his sun box to a halt. It shouldn't - especially since it sounds like most of the pages are static!

I do like his solution of running top and scraping the output for process info, though.

2) One of the things I do to monitor one of my websites is run a simple perl script in cron using LWP and HTTP::Request modules. This way, you can make your own request to the site, check a the url for response time, and respond accordingly. Either restart the server automatically through that cron job, or, at the very least, fire off an email to you warning of the potential problems.

In reply to Re: Re: HTTP Daemonology by clearcache
in thread HTTP Daemonology by jlongino

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