monit, god or something else?

[Tim Uckun]

I have written a custom daemon for running some background tasks. I
will be running several copies of this daemon (one for each
environment) and have further plans to write more daemons.

I wanted to see if you guys are doing similar things and what you are
using to manage start-stop scripts, monitoring of the daemons,
alerting etc.

[Tim Haines]

I have god in place at the moment, but want to swap it out because it leaks memory (significantly over weeks).  I mentioned on twitter recently that I'd be swapping it with monit, and Koz suggested runit is worth taking a look instead - simpler with less features.

Tim.

[Jeremy Olliver]

I'll second that about god. memory just grows aver time. Whether that's due to the ruby MRI memory assignment for long running processes (the reason REE and passenger came about), or an error causing the memory leak I'm not sure. Either way, you shouldn't have to monitor your monitors.

Cheers,
Jeremy

2009/7/2 Tim Haines <tmha...@gmail.com>

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[Rimu Atkinson]

1 vote for monit, here. Simple, powerful, robust and well documented.

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[Tim Uckun]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Tim Haines<tmha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have god in place at the moment, but want to swap it out because it leaks
> memory (significantly over weeks).  I mentioned on twitter recently that I'd
> be swapping it with monit, and Koz suggested runit is worth taking a look
> instead - simpler with less features.
>

By runit do you mean this?

http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/

[Tim Haines]

I'm pretty sure that's it.  I haven't had a crack at it yet.  Let me know how you get on.

Tim.