Matthew W. Jones (KI4ZIB)
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Fabian Groffen
<Fabian.Groffen@cwi.nl> wrote:
On 17-05-2010 10:51:56 -0400, Matthew Jones wrote:
> To manage the rest of the database I have a series of scripts that check to
> see if the database is using a stupid amount of memory (80%+ of physical
> memory on the machine) or to see if the database is deadlocked (this happens
> several times a day). If either of these situations exist then I SIGHUP the
> merovingian and mserver processes... when the database comes back up and
> gets primed then it will be using a reasonable amount of memory for about 8
> hours or so.
Do you really mean SIGHUP here? Does merovingian get stuck/deadlocked
too, or just the database? SIGHUP to merovingian will just make it
reopen its logfiles.