Interesting Things
pgrep is a sweet tool for finding processes. You can find all your mongrels, for example, without having the problems of running ps aux | grep ruby. It's in the proctools package on most linux/unix operating systems. For example, on osx use sudo port install proctoolskill -482 kills all processes in the group 482. This is great for killing all the children of a daemon like mysql or backgroundrb. ps shows the process group id next to the process id.monit doesn't have great support for figuring out what happens when a start/stop command runs. It can fail silently, for example. One (bad) way of debugging this is to add echo to dump debugging info to a temporary file before and after these commands. Rumor has it that god doesn't have these problems...- we've heard a rumor that
Marshal.dump(object) uses a temporary file on disk! This would be slower than it needed to be. Perhaps this is to deal with dumping objects to large to fit in RAM?
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(on linux) you can get the pgroup of a process with pid 555 like this:
(-o selects the columns to display, h suppresses column headers.)
pgrep/pkill -f is awesome for substring matching