[Melbourne-pm] Detecting Hardware limits / problems
Stas Bekman
stas at stason.org
Thu Jan 27 16:34:08 PST 2005
David Dick wrote:
> One of my earliest perl experiences was being put in charge of a crusty
> horrific set of cgi scripts that powered a fairly popular web site
> (around 1-2 hits per second on average). Popularity was building thou,
> and soon after i was put in charge, things would just go beserk. The
> error logs would suddenly fill with completely confusing error messages
> about how the code base wasn't compiling, .pl files were not being
> required successfully, etc. I guessed in the end that the machine had
> run out of memory because it had spawned too many cgi-scripts and set
> about repairing things.
>
> however, the mental scarring is still there and the question is, are
> there are special tricks that people use to
>
> 1) detect a hardware limit or problem and write a message to stderr?
> 2) stop a hardware limit or problem from filling stderr with tons of
> verbose, misleading messages about the effects of the problem, instead
> of the cause?
>
> The point of this would be to as quickly as possible, alert the owner of
> the program that hardware failure or a hardware limit has occurred.
David, take a look at BSD::Resource and ulimit(1). And you can try
mod_perl+Apache::PerlRun, you will need a way fewer perls around (in which
case Apache::Resource should be used to set hardware limits.
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