Loadavg.pl question

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jan 25, 2007 Posts: 1

I tried using the loadavg.pl script

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#use strict;
$|++;
open(LOAD,"/proc/loadavg") || die "couldn't open /proc/loadavg: $!\n";
my @load=split(/ /,<LOAD>);
close(LOAD);
if ($load[0] > 5) {
`/sbin/service httpd restart`;
}

and placed it in /usr/local/script/loadavg.pl and chmod to 755

and added this to my crontab

*/1 * * * * root /usr/local/script/loadavg.pl

my server load went up to 20 and waited if it will automatically go down via the script but it seems it's not working. I had to restart apache manually.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong with the script?

Thanks in advance.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12349

I don't know what this does. It doesn't seem to be a GoogleTap or phpNuke issue