I was haing some trouble (OOMing and crashing) with Dropbox running on an old Ubuntu laptop so I wrote a couple of scripts to keep it in check. The first one shuts down Dropbox when a threshold load average is met (4.00). And the second one restarts the Dropbox process if it crashes.
*/10 * * * * ~/dropbox_restarter.sh >> ~/dropbox_restarter.log
*/1 * * * * ~/dropbox_load_limiter.sh >> ~/dropbox_load_limiter.log
| #!/bin/bash | |
| loadavg=$(uptime | awk '{print $10}' | cut -d "," -f 1) | |
| currentdate=$(date +%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S) | |
| ## Optional to log disk space usage too | |
| useddisk=$(df -h | grep ext4_2TB_1 | awk '{print $3}') | |
| threshold=4.00 | |
| echo "$currentdate - $useddisk - $loadavg load" | |
| thresholdbreach=$(echo "$loadavg > $threshold" | bc) | |
| if [ $thresholdbreach = 1 ] | |
| then | |
| echo "load average above $threshold threshold... stoping dropbox" | |
| dropbox stop | |
| fi |
| #!/bin/bash | |
| status=$(dropbox status) | |
| failed_string="Dropbox isn't running!" | |
| echo "$status" | |
| if [ "$status" != "$failed_string" ] | |
| then | |
| echo "dropbox is running!!!" | |
| else | |
| echo "dropbox is not running... starting!!!" | |
| dropbox start | |
| fi |