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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.

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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.
> > >
> > >
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