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[Gareth]

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 14:59, Brad Beckenhauer wrote:
> >>> On 8/18/2007 at 9:09 AM, in message <46C6FDA7.3080605 at ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Julian
> Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> > Brad Beckenhauer wrote:
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> >> That would be a nice feature request for MailScanner, something to
> >> provide consistant volume benchmarks across all supported MailScanner
> >> platforms.  
> >> Something like:
> >> MailScanner -stats
> >> or a configuration setting to enable benchmarking with the
> >> understanding that there would be system overhead associated with the
> >> additional process.
> >>   
> > What stats would you like it to log that it doesn't already?
> > There's no communication between the child processes once they are 
> > started, but I could add a signal trap so that a kill -USR or something 
> > would make them dump some figures to some file or other, then restart 
> > the batch they were on. They already catch kill -HUP to force them to 
> > die. So exactly what do you want to do when it receives a SIGUSR?
> 
> Several times on the list I've noticed questions like "What's your volume?".  
> Is there already something in MailScanner that can generate an answer to that question?
> 
> My first thought would be to have MailScanner calculate the daily volume of total daily messages processed.  That way when the "What's your volume" question comes up, there is a standardized way to respond to the question.  An hourly histogram would be an interesting stat.
> 
> Date
> TIME             Msgs processed
> 00:00-01:00   xxxx
> 01:00-02:00   xxxx
> 02:00-03:00   xxxx
> —----------------------
> Mail Volume   xxxxx
> Hourly Avg:    xx%
> 
> Anyway... That was the thought.....  Feel free to toss the idea to the bit bucket.  I'm not going to be arguing the idea.
> 
> Thanks for listening.
> Brad

I just use standard logwatch as it gives a good daily summary.