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I am the CEO of OmniTI where I do all sorts of stuff I find absolutely fascinating.
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Friday, May 29. 2009 at 14:47 (Link) (Reply)
SMF does rock, but it can't be extended to monitor and kill services due to high resource consumption such as CPU or memory.
I use God to compliment SMF. God takes care of flaky services while SMF restarts them.
Saturday, May 30. 2009 at 13:52 (Reply)
Most operating system have pretty comprehensive resource accounting and control features. I use the built-in features to limit resource consumption and SMF to ensure services are always running when they should be.
I use external monitoring to make sure the services function as they should.