Re: Monit ignoring Memory amount limit

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 2. okt. 2007, at 19.09, William Cotton wrote:

> I am monitoring a bunch of mongrel processes, including in their  
> monit configuration:
>
> if totalmem is greater than 150.0 MB for 5 cycles then restart
>
> which, when I check on it's status, shows:
>
> If greater than 153600 5 times within 5 cycle(s) then restart else  
> if passed 1 times within 1 cycle(s) then alert
>
> However, I frequently find that processes have swelled to well  
> beyond that limit with no restart. Is there something that I'm  
> missing here?


Have you checked that processes stay above 150 MB for the entire  
duration of 5 cycles? If not, the if-test would not trigger.