script which restarts apache automatically

[mukamo]

hi all

is there a script that runs every minute or so which checks the server load and when it reaches a certain number say 4.0, it executes

service httpd restart




thanks in advance

 

[chatwizrd]

There would be a reason if your server reached a load like that. Just restarting the webserver is not gonna change anything. You are just killing the established connections. Once they all reconnect the load will be the same.

 

[mukamo]

but the server load just shoots up only once in awhile and an apache restart always fixes it

 

[kke]

#!/bin/sh

ld=`uptime | awk -F, '{print $5}' | awk -F. '{print $1}'`;
limit=5;

if [ $ld -gt $limit ]; then
`service httpd restart`;
fi


Then put it in crontab
*/5 * * * * root path_to_script

 

[mukamo]

i'll try this one

thanks