You know what, monit IS taking care of it! What I should do now is change
the amount of time in between checks, from 180 seconds to something like 60
or 30...

I guess I'm surprised to find out that in the 15 minutes between 5 cycles,
that a single mongrel process can balloon so quickly...

*slaps forehead*

Thanks everyone!

William

On 10/2/07, Martin Pala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Try to enable monit verbose mode (using -v option) and check logs ...
> it logs/reports the memory usage for each cycle. How does your monit
> configuration describe the mongrel processes? Is the process with the
> 700MB usage related to the monitored parent? (the one with pidfile
> matching the monit configuration).
>
> Martin
>
> On Oct 2, 2007, at 8:15 PM, William Cotton wrote:
>
> > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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