tania 1.0.0

A greedy processes sniper

A simple script to automatically kill greedy processes

Tania is a python script designed to kill processes that should not be there on a computing cluster's frontend, generally because users forgot (or do not know how to) launch their program into a proper job. You can customize which processes should be monitored (targets) and which should be whitelisted (allies), based on their name, owner, cputime and memory size (rss).

Installation

Install tania:

git clone https://github.com/bzizou/tania
cd tania
pip install .

Copy tania.conf and tania_targets.json to an appropriate location, for example /etc, and customize those files. You can set up the $TANIA_CONF_FILE variable if you placed the config file into another location than /etc.

sudo cp etc/tania.conf /etc
sudo cp etc/tania_targets.json /etc
# Edit tania.conf and tania_targets.json
# WARNING: tania can kill system processes if not configured properly!

Usage

tania --help
Usage: tania [options]

Options:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -D, --do       Actualy do kill bad processes
  -v, --verbose  Be more verbose
  -m, --mail     Send an email to the familly of the deceased

By default, tania does nothing and only prints the PID of the processes that should be killed:

root@f-dahu:~# tania               
Warning: 1827444 is in the viewfinder 
Warning: 210765 is in the viewfinder  
Warning: 3317806 is in the viewfinder 

You can print more informations, to know the reasons of the kills:

root@dahu:~# tania -v
We should kill 1670118 ( yes ) of bzizou with cputime 4 (limit  1 )
We should kill 1666340 ( stress-ng-vm [run] ) of bzizou with memory 212292 (limit  200000 )

To actually kill the processes, use --do:

root@dahu:~# tania --do
Shooting down process 1670118

The --mail option will send an e-mail to the owner of the killed process using the mail templates from the config file.