Hi Dave, There is a tool sysusage which is a open source coded in perl. It might be worth to have a look.
2010/2/8 Dave Tang <d.t...@imb.uq.edu.au>: > Hi everybody, > > I want to write a script that checks memory usage of my RHEL box, and ran as > a cron job say every 10 minutes. > > I could write the Perl script to run a system command like "ps aux", parse > that information and kill a job if >90% of the total system memory (and I > realise most of the times memory is sitting in cached) is being used. And I > guess if 8 jobs are already using 80%, the job that topples the threshold > will have to be stopped. But since that isn't a Perl question, I won't ask > if that is a good implementation. > > Since I didn't want to reinvent the wheel and/or write an inelegant script, > I wanted to ask if there are CPAN modules, which people have used, to help > with achieving my task? > > Many thanks, > > Dave > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
