How To Auto-Restart Apache If the Load Gets Too High

Author: , September 15th, 2015

The script to check and restart apache…works on CentOS – YMMV!

Add to cron * * * * * /root/restart_apache_if_load_hits_threshold.sh >> /var/log/restart_apache_if_load_hits_threshold.log 2>&1

Understanding Load Averages

Author: , November 22nd, 2009

http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2009/07/31/understanding-load-averages From http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9001: “The point of perfect utilization, meaning that the CPUs are always busy and, yet, no process ever waits for one, is the average matching the number of CPUs. If there are four CPUs on a machine and the reported one-minute load average is 4.00, the machine has been utilizing its processors perfectly […]