Clement Hermann (nodens) wrote: > Le 21/06/2011 18:28, Michael D. Sofka a écrit : >> I run squatter in a perl program that forks three parallel squatter >> processes on individual user's mailboxes. If a mailbox is locked the >> particular squatter processing the mailbox quits, but the main program >> continues to fork new processes for the remaining mailboxes. The program >> checkpoints each user, shuts down at 6 A.M., and continues where it left >> off the following day. > Looks nice. > > Maybe you could share this script ? I could use a squatter with some > parallelization and a way to stop it when the load is starting to grow > (like in the morning). I guess it could be modified to use other > parameters to know when to stop : number of logged-in users or imap/pop > processes, system load... > > Cheers, > I'm looking over the paperwork needed to share the program (welcome to 21st Century academia). If I get approval, I'll consider adding other termination/pause options. Our 24 hour load-cycle is fairly predicable. But I can see how logged-in users, and load average would be useful. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sofkam@xxxxxxx C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, HPC, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/ ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
