Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:37:18 +0300 (MSK) From: Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru> To: Josh Brooks <user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: differentiating apache children from parents ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0301241634530.28852-100000@apache.metrocom.ru> In-Reply-To: <20030124053226.U64423-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com>
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Yes you can kill it if the pid is not 1, presuming you're not killing it during of a query processing. ---- Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax) On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Josh Brooks wrote: > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:33:27 -0800 (PST) > From: Josh Brooks <user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> > To: Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: differentiating apache children from parents ? > > > I want to kill apache children that exceed a certain memory size - but I > want to make sure only to kill children. Is your method a workable way of > doing that ? That is, I would test it and if it is +not+ 1 then I would > be ok to kill it, since it is not the parent ? > > > > On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: > > > you can look at the parent pid of the process in question wether it is 1 > > or not: > > > > ps xa -oppid -p _PID_ > > > > But depending on what you're trying to do afterwards (for example kill the > > process if you determine by some external script that there are too many > > apaches running and you're not satisfied with the native apache process > > maintanance mechanism), there can be better ways... > > > > Regards > > > > ---- > > Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company > > Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax) > > > > On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Josh Brooks wrote: > > > > > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:22:00 -0800 (PST) > > > From: Josh Brooks <user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> > > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > Subject: differentiating apache children from parents ? > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Is there any way to tell, simply from /proc info and/or ps output if a > > > certain httpd PID is a child or the parent ? > > > > > > If yes, is this method applicable on any OS (linux) ? > > > > > > thanks. > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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