Script to restart Apache on big memory consumption

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Posted by WebHostDog, 03-02-2012, 01:39 PM
I need a good solution to watch the Apache overall memory usage and restart it in case of big loadavg and/or memory usage. Anybody is using something proven and working ?
Posted by rustelekom, 03-02-2012, 02:02 PM
Hi, Monit could be good solution.
Posted by hostfeat, 03-02-2012, 02:06 PM
I think you shouldn't use like this scripts! when the Apache memory usage is high you have to investigate the issue before restarts it(this is my idea and what I usually do).
Posted by WebHostDog, 03-03-2012, 06:45 AM
Yes I am using monit but for some reason it cannot restart Apache. Before years I was using it and was working fine. It is a cPanel server though. Do not know what might be the workaround for this.
Posted by jibinthomas007, 03-08-2012, 05:15 AM
You can use the following script to restart apache when load hikes more than 5 vi load.sh enter the following codes and save n=uptime | awk {'print $8'} | cut -d, -f1 if [ n -gt 5 ];then /etc/init.d/httpd restart fi; chmod 755 load.sh set as a cron in the server to execute every 5 minute.
Posted by SiteServing, 03-08-2012, 06:23 PM
Monit has problems reading /proc when there is grsecurity kernel in place.