Re: [webmin-l] system and server status fillrate check

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 12/Nov/2006 18:53 Pat Erler wrote ..
> hi jamie,
> 
> i use the the "Disk Space" monitor on all of my servers volumes, but when
> ist is most neccessary, it mostly fails. i talk about the case when an
> erroneous script is running amok and is filling up a volume; the alarm
> most of the time just comes to late.
> 
> in a recent sleepless night i came up with this cunning idea: ;)
> 
> measure the fill rate of a volume and than offer a failure state like:
> 
> in XX minutes available space is below XX percent/XX bytes
> 
> 
> this way i could set up an alarm for sending a mail to sm...@ad... when
> the disk is really fast filling.
> 
> possible?

That's not a bad idea .. perhaps the monitor could set a fill rate
(say 1MB / second), and if disk space is being used up faster than that,
it would trigger.

Would that work in your case?

 - Jamie