Dave Tang wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I want to write a script that checks memory usage of my RHEL box, and > ran as a cron job say every 10 minutes. > > I could write the Perl script to run a system command like "ps aux", > parse that information and kill a job if >90% of the total system memory > (and I realise most of the times memory is sitting in cached) is being > used. And I guess if 8 jobs are already using 80%, the job that topples > the threshold will have to be stopped. But since that isn't a Perl > question, I won't ask if that is a good implementation. > > Since I didn't want to reinvent the wheel and/or write an inelegant > script, I wanted to ask if there are CPAN modules, which people have > used, to help with achieving my task?
I don't know if there's any CPAN modules, but you should use the /proc directory rather than ps. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your thingy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
