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[Glenn Steen]

On 20/08/07, Gareth <list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com> wrote:
> 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:
> > >>
> > >> 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.
>
pflogsumm and MailWatch do the trick for me:-).

Cheers
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