Dan Wilder wrote: > The box never seems to break into a sweat. I'm running a monitor > script which looks for rapid increase of swapspace used and restarts
Unreliable approach. Use your shell's ulimit or a program like 'softlimit' to limit the server's memory usage. Use 'runit' or 'daemontools' to restart the service if it exits. -- Anybody practicing the fine art of composing music, no matter how cynical or greedy or scared, still cant help serving all humanity. Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it. --Kurt Vonnegut
