From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 24 5:33:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0BD837B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:33:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.econolodgetulsa.com (mail.econolodgetulsa.com [198.78.66.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E6D43F13 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:33:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com) Received: from mail (user@mail [198.78.66.163]) by mail.econolodgetulsa.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0ODXRZb010494; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:33:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:33:27 -0800 (PST) From: Josh Brooks To: Varshavchick Alexander Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: differentiating apache children from parents ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030124053226.U64423-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I want to kill apache children that exceed a certain memory size - but I want to make sure only to kill children. Is your method a workable way of doing that ? That is, I would test it and if it is +not+ 1 then I would be ok to kill it, since it is not the parent ? On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: > you can look at the parent pid of the process in question wether it is 1 > or not: > > ps xa -oppid -p _PID_ > > But depending on what you're trying to do afterwards (for example kill the > process if you determine by some external script that there are too many > apaches running and you're not satisfied with the native apache process > maintanance mechanism), there can be better ways... > > Regards > > ---- > Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company > Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax) > > On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Josh Brooks wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:22:00 -0800 (PST) > > From: Josh Brooks > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: differentiating apache children from parents ? > > > > > > Hello, > > > > Is there any way to tell, simply from /proc info and/or ps output if a > > certain httpd PID is a child or the parent ? > > > > If yes, is this method applicable on any OS (linux) ? > > > > thanks. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message