[hobbit] Checking process longevity

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Mon Feb 4 10:17:40 CET 2008


On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:20:42AM +0900, Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote:
> I'm trying to work out how I can get hobbit to alert me when a process
> has existed for more than n seconds.  This is important as we sometimes
> have NFS problems that cause processes such as df to hang due to stale
> mounts and I'd like tp pick these up sooner rather than later.

Wouldn't it be easier to just scan the logfile for NFS timeout errors?

Hobbit doesn't track the lifetime of a process, and I would think this
would be very bothersome to setup because you'd have to exclude long-
living daemon processes.


Regards,
Henrik




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