Matt Brookings wrote:
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> Eric Shubert wrote:
>> Is there some sort of specification documentation for vusaged that
>> describes how it works? If there is, I think it would be useful to have
>> it published so that it can be scrutinized by the community. Better to
>> get things worked out up front than to confront them in the debugging
>> stage.
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> I don't have a document prepared, however it's relatively simple.  In
> the most simple terms, all it does is look up every user under vpopmail,
> and count how much storage they're using.  That is how it calculates user usage.
>
> To calculate domain usage, it adds up all the users' storage counts.
>
> There are a great deal of efficiencies added, of course.  Constantly polling the
> disk would be extremely inefficient.  It's also meant to be extremely fault
> tolerant, meaning, if vusaged isn't running, or the client API fails, delivery
> does not cease, and is not delayed in any noticable manner.
>
> I suppose the reason there is no document explaining this, is because the general
> idea is very simple, and the vusaged configuration file explains many of the
> efficiencies via it's configurable options.
>
> Was there any specific topic you were interested in?  I'd be happy to provide
> whatever information you're looking for.
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No, that pretty well sums it up. I should have a look at the
configuration file. I don't expect that'll happen for me until ldap on
5.5 is ready for testing though. ;)

I was just a little concerned about Tonix's comments. We'll see what he
has to say. I'm confident you'll do what's best. Thanks for the great work.
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-Eric 'shubes'


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