Re: Monit ignoring Memory amount limit

[William Cotton]

Yeah, they are definitely staying above the limit, growing to some obscene sizes as well... I've seen one mongrel process get over a 700MB!

On 10/2/07, Jan-Henrik Haukeland <address@hidden> wrote:

On 2. okt. 2007, at 19.09, William Cotton wrote:

> I am monitoring a bunch of mongrel processes, including in their
> monit configuration:
>
> if totalmem is greater than 150.0 MB for 5 cycles then restart
>
> which, when I check on it's status, shows:
>
> If greater than 153600 5 times within 5 cycle(s) then restart else
> if passed 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then alert
>
> However, I frequently find that processes have swelled to well
> beyond that limit with no restart. Is there something that I'm
> missing here?


Have you checked that processes stay above 150 MB for the entire
duration of 5 cycles? If not, the if-test would not trigger.



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