anyone knows a good pid killer perl or shell script?

Hmm.. kill -9 works wonders.

What are you looking for the script to do?

when you have something like this and you are not around, kill -9 or killall won't work. I've been using watchman but I don't like that script.


1:25am up 1 day, 12:19, 3 users, load average: 22.15, 9.26, 4.20
218 processes: 214 sleeping, 1 running, 3 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 86.2% user, 13.2% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
CPU1 states: 87.1% user, 12.3% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
CPU2 states: 84.4% user, 15.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
CPU3 states: 81.0% user, 19.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 1030676K av, 1021084K used, 9592K free, 0K shrd, 32044K buff
Swap: 2048276K av, 697248K used, 1351028K free 141148K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
468 nobody 18 0 48136 34M 3796 R 50.0 3.4 0:25 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
32105 nobody 18 0 271M 125M 7320 R 49.2 12.4 3:37 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
32136 nobody 16 0 248M 123M 6764 R 48.4 12.2 3:25 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
32163 nobody 19 0 239M 128M 8728 R 47.8 12.7 3:15 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
375 nobody 16 0 30964 17M 7608 R 46.3 1.7 0:07 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
32072 nobody 20 0 86428 55M 8656 R 44.5 5.4 0:56 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
32203 nobody 18 0 256M 122M 6448 R 43.9 12.1 3:28 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
8 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 16.0 0.0 42:43 kscand

Is it spawning more processes all the time? If not, kill -9 should work fine. Or even a simple Apache restart should do the trick depending on the nature/cause of the processes.

Originally posted by inteltechs
anyone knows a good pid killer perl or shell script?

I guess you should try PRM (Process Resource Monitor) by
rfxnetworks (http://www.rfxnetworks.com/prm.php)

I tred that rfx script and wasnt to impressed by it, didnt kill much of anything

Originally posted by inteltechs
when you have something like this and you are not around, kill -9 or killall won't work. I've been using watchman but I don't like that script.


1:25am up 1 day, 12:19, 3 users, load average: 22.15, 9.26, 4.20
218 processes: 214 sleeping, 1 running, 3 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 86.2% user, 13.2% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
CPU1 states: 87.1% user, 12.3% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
CPU2 states: 84.4% user, 15.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
CPU3 states: 81.0% user, 19.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 1030676K av, 1021084K used, 9592K free, 0K shrd, 32044K buff
Swap: 2048276K av, 697248K used, 1351028K free 141148K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
468 nobody 18 0 48136 34M 3796 R 50.0 3.4 0:25 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
32105 nobody 18 0 271M 125M 7320 R 49.2 12.4 3:37 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
32136 nobody 16 0 248M 123M 6764 R 48.4 12.2 3:25 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
32163 nobody 19 0 239M 128M 8728 R 47.8 12.7 3:15 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
375 nobody 16 0 30964 17M 7608 R 46.3 1.7 0:07 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
32072 nobody 20 0 86428 55M 8656 R 44.5 5.4 0:56 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
32203 nobody 18 0 256M 122M 6448 R 43.9 12.1 3:28 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
8 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 16.0 0.0 42:43 kscand

did you find a solution to your problem
i have the same problem please help

What causes those heavy loads to server? Its apache, yeah... Some bad .php script etc? How can you track what is cousing those loads?