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Prof. Falken
Asked: 2011-06-14 13:27:25 +0800 CST

Monit catch run-away process

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There are examples for how to make Monit detect a service going amok and use too much RAM. But what if the service forks a program and the child takes too much RAM?

Or put another way, how can I make Monit detect and act on any random process which is spawned and starts eating all the RAM. Before the evil OOM starts killing processes left and right...

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    Excerpt from man monit

    TOTALMEMORY is the memory usage of the process and its child processes in either percent or as an amount (Byte, kB, MB, GB).

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