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

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

On 12/Nov/2006 23:47 Pat Erler wrote ..
> hi,
> 
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:59:08 +0100, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>
> wrote:
> 
> >> 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?
> not really, because, when i have script running, that shuffles a lot of
> data around it shouldn't trigger, it should trigger, when 1mbit/sec is
> filled and there are only 600 mbit available (but this should be  
> flexible). but if you know how much space is used up per minute you know
> how long the disk will float, so to speak..

A script that is just moving data wouldn't trigger the check I was thinking
of, as it isn't consuming any more disk space. I was thinking of a check 
on the rate that free space is being reduced..

 - Jamie