Parse Apache extended status (http://localhost/server-status) and
print results, suitable for commandline scripts.
Examples:
Show all process that have been busy for at least 2 minutes with the
current request and are in R(eading) state
apachetop --mintime 120 --state R
Show all active Apache processes and reverse sort based on request
duration.
apachetop | sort -nk4
Kill all processes that are running for longer than 2 minutes:
apachetop --mintime 120 --kill
Find longest running apache procs on all web and app servers and
sort on duration
pboxes -f web,app --ssh "apachetop --mintime 600" | sort -nk7
Find all "graciously closing" procs, that will probably never ever
close. Kill them
apachetop --state G --mintime 120 --kill
Kill all connections occupied by Chinese with crappy bandwidth.
apachetop --state R --mintime 10 --kill
Kill everything with request time > 20 sec, if total amount of
active procs is > 120.
apachetop --kill --mintime 10 --minprocs 120
Find all procs that are sending data, sorted on number of procs per
site.
pboxes -f app --ssh "apachetop --state W" | awk '{ print $13; }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
Emergency measure to keep a hammered box alive, The -E only sends
mail if the message body is non-empty
while (sleep 5);
do
apachetop --mintime 20 --minprocs 140 --kill | mail -E -s "apache killer @ BU.com" [email protected];
done
