Shell script - Kill a specific program if its CPU load exceeded a certain threshold
This shell script I wrote in order to kill the python process if its CPU usage percentage exceeded 96%: #! /bin/bash THRESHOLD=96 while [ 1 ]; do MYPROGRAM_ID=`pidof python` # if the result is not empty, or there is a python process if [ ! -z "$ MYPROGRAM _ID" ] ; then CPU_LOAD=`ps -o %C -p $ MYPROGRAM _ID | tail -n 1` echo $CPU_LOAD # bc will return 0 for false and 1 for true if [ $(echo "$CPU_LOAD > $THRESHOLD" | bc) -ne 0 ] ; then kill -9 $GATEKEEPER_ID else echo "Normal" fi fi done Useful!