Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:51:35 -0500 From: Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Automatically kill run-away processes? Message-ID: <20050415075135.0d313f8f@jacob.6texans.net>
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Hello, We have a server with a couple hundred clients on it. Normally it runs great, with a load of 0.6 - 1.6, but occasionally someone runs a large script or sends a lot of e-mails and makes the load go through the roof. I know the Linux kernel has the "oom-killer" that will start killing processes when it runs out of ram. Is there an equivalent for FreeBSD? Also, is there any way I can add extra accounting details in the logfiles? Such as, perhaps which script Apache ran that sent the e-mails, etc? I know it may not be that straight forward, but if anybody else has tricks for doing something similar to this, I would appreciate it if they could share them with us. TIA, Jacob
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