squatter stops when it encounters a locked mailbox?

[Michael D. Sofka]

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
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