Script to kill runaway processes

[backoftheworm]

I occasionally have runaway processes on my Openserver 5.0.6 server. They are non-root processes. At night and over the weekends, these processes can consume all of the cpu power. Are there any scripts that can automatically recognize and kill these runaway processes?

 

[Annihilannic]

Something like:

[tt]ps -eo pid,comm,pcpu | nawk '$3 > 98 { print $1}' | xargs kill[/tt]

...would do it. Maybe kill -9 if they don't respond to that. You'd want to be sure that no other processes go over 98% CPU usage though! Annihilannic.