Hello,

I wrote a script that gracefully terminates Passenger processes
consuming more than 2.5 GB of private RSS memory. Typical consumption
of Foreman with Katello and other basic plugins is around 1.5 GB and
since only Passenger Enterprise allows to limit maximum amount of RSS
memory for processes, this simple script does exactly that:

https://gist.github.com/lzap/8dddbe66ec8d43cbd4277c1de7045c17

Put it into your /etc/cron.hourly/ and make it executable, make sure
you read root emails or forward it properly, the script reports all
terminations performed on STDOUT. I would like you to test this script
in production and get back to me with feedback about what you think.

Motivation is simple - we often introduce bugs in our Rails codebase
which performs some eager loading or there are memory leaks in our
code or dependencies and Passenger processes can grow up to dozens
gigabytes. Unfortunately, there is no other way of getting out other
than restarting httpd with passenger. This script could help to avoid
situations when production instance starts to swap hard thank to some
small regression we introduced. Also administrator will be noticed
early via email when this happens so we will keep track of these
regressions in production.

http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/19496

Feedback appreciated.

-- 
Later,
  Lukas @lzap Zapletal

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