Merb & Monit

[John Weir]

greetings,

i have been trying to get merb and monit to play well.  but monit  
won't restart merb.  neither will monit stop merb if it is still  
running but not responding.

below is the monit config for the merb app.

anyone know what i am doing wrong or have good strategies for using  
monit and merb?

thank you - john weir


check process manwith-4000 with pidfile /path_to_merb_app/log/merb. 
4000.pid
    start program = " /usr/bin/merb -u nobody -G nogroup -e  
production -d -m /path_to_merb_app/ -f
/path_to_merb_app/dist/conf/upload.conf -M /path_to_merb_app/dist/ 
conf/merb.yml"
    stop program = "/usr/bin/merb -k 4000"

    if totalmem is greater than 95.0 MB for 2 cycles then  
restart       # eating up memory?
    #if cpu is greater than 50% for 2 cycles then  
alert                  # send an email to admin
    if cpu is greater than 80% for 3 cycles then  
restart                # hung process?
    #if loadavg(5min) greater than 10 for 8 cycles then  
restart          # bad, bad, bad
    if 3 restarts within 5 cycles then  
timeout                         # something is wrong, call
the sys-admin

    if failed port 4000 protocol http                   # check for  
response
        with timeout 10 seconds
        then start
    group mongrel