Mongrel users - Nov 2006 - Restarting mongrel cluster from other directories

I want to restart my Mongrels from crontab
periodically to free up memory. I tried this:

[admin at mudcrapce ~]$ mongrel_rails cluster::restart -C
/var/www/apps/mudcrapce/current/config/mongrel_cluster.yml

Restarting 5 Mongrel servers...
mongrel_rails restart -P log/mongrel.3040.pid
!!! PID file log/mongrel.3040.pid does not exist. Not
running?
mongrel::restart reported an error. Use mongrel_rails
mongrel::restart -h to get help.

Mongrel''s cluster restart has these options:
[admin at mudcrapce ~]$ mongrel_rails cluster::restart -h
Usage: mongrel_rails <command> [options]
    -C, --config PATH                Path to config
file
    -s, --soft                       Do a soft restart
rather than a process exit restart
    -h, --help                       Show this message
        --version                    Show version

I see regular Mongrel has a chdir option for restart:

-c, --chdir PATH                 Change to dir before
starting (will be expanded)

But I don''t think that''d work for clusters.

Any ideas? I also hear that perhaps Monit could be
used for restarting processes if they start using too
much memory.

Thanks,
Joe



 
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Monit is the way to go.

I''ve setup monit to restart when the mongrel starts to use more than
80MB, and when it''s not available. (When I rotate the logs, I have a
script that will kill one mongrel process every 30 seconds, until they
have all rotated.)

There were a few examples posted on the list a while back that should
help you out.

On 11/30/06, Joe Ruby <joeat303 at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I want to restart my Mongrels from crontab
> periodically to free up memory. I tried this:
>
> [admin at mudcrapce ~]$ mongrel_rails cluster::restart -C
> /var/www/apps/mudcrapce/current/config/mongrel_cluster.yml
>
> Restarting 5 Mongrel servers...
> mongrel_rails restart -P log/mongrel.3040.pid
> !!! PID file log/mongrel.3040.pid does not exist. Not
> running?
> mongrel::restart reported an error. Use mongrel_rails
> mongrel::restart -h to get help.
>
> Mongrel''s cluster restart has these options:
> [admin at mudcrapce ~]$ mongrel_rails cluster::restart -h
> Usage: mongrel_rails <command> [options]
>     -C, --config PATH                Path to config
> file
>     -s, --soft                       Do a soft restart
> rather than a process exit restart
>     -h, --help                       Show this message
>         --version                    Show version
>
> I see regular Mongrel has a chdir option for restart:
>
> -c, --chdir PATH                 Change to dir before
> starting (will be expanded)
>
> But I don''t think that''d work for clusters.
>
> Any ideas? I also hear that perhaps Monit could be
> used for restarting processes if they start using too
> much memory.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
>
>
>
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