Unix Script to find and kill a process with high memory utilization


 
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Unix Script to find and kill a process with high memory utilization

Hi Unix Gurus i am somewhat new to unix scripting so need your help to
create a script as below.

# This script would find the process consuming memory beyond a certain #limit. if the meemory consumption is more than 100% for a period of 1
# minute for the specific process. the script would kill the process

top -n 1 -u user | grep ABC | awk '{print $1" "$10}' > pid_mem

#Example pid_mem where $1 is process id and $10 is %memory consumed
# file contains the pid and memory % as below example
12258 21.6
12298 51.5
19207 107.5
#read the text for file and determine the pid for process with %mem > 100
# example pid = 19207
#if exist # then iterate for sometime for the same process id to determine if the memory spike comes down for example

count=0
while (count <=5) {
top -n 1 -u user | grep $pid
if ($10 > 100)
sleep 10
if (count =5)
then if ($10 >100)
kill -9 $pid
echo "Memory is more than 100 so process killed" | mailx -r %date -s 'memory > 90%' abc@z.com
endif
endif
count =count + 1
endif
}
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PS(1)							      General Commands Manual							     PS(1)

NAME
ps - process status SYNOPSIS
ps [ aklx ] [ namelist ] DESCRIPTION
Ps prints certain indicia about active processes. The a option asks for information about all processes with terminals (ordinarily only one's own processes are displayed); x asks even about processes with no terminal; l asks for a long listing. The short listing contains the process ID, tty letter, the cumulative execution time of the process and an approximation to the command line. The long listing is columnar and contains F Flags associated with the process. 01: in core; 02: system process; 04: locked in core (e.g. for physical I/O); 10: being swapped; 20: being traced by another process. S The state of the process. 0: nonexistent; S: sleeping; W: waiting; R: running; I: intermediate; Z: terminated; T: stopped. UID The user ID of the process owner. PID The process ID of the process; as in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know its true name. PPID The process ID of the parent process. CPU Processor utilization for scheduling. PRI The priority of the process; high numbers mean low priority. NICE Used in priority computation. ADDR The core address of the process if resident, otherwise the disk address. SZ The size in blocks of the core image of the process. WCHAN The event for which the process is waiting or sleeping; if blank, the process is running. TTY The controlling tty for the process. TIME The cumulative execution time for the process. The command and its arguments. A process that has exited and has a parent, but has not yet been waited for by the parent is marked <defunct>. Ps makes an educated guess as to the file name and arguments given when the process was created by examining core memory or the swap area. The method is inherently somewhat unreliable and in any event a process is entitled to destroy this information, so the names cannot be counted on too much. If the k option is specified, the file /usr/sys/core is used in place of /dev/mem. This is used for postmortem system debugging. If a second argument is given, it is taken to be the file containing the system's namelist. FILES
/unix system namelist /dev/mem core memory /usr/sys/core alternate core file /dev searched to find swap device and tty names SEE ALSO
kill(1) BUGS
Things can change while ps is running; the picture it gives is only a close approximation to reality. Some data printed for defunct processes is irrelevant PDP11 PS(1)