Not sure how those other scripts are doing it, if using an ls maybe? As a test, can you do:
time find <path> -type f |wc -l See how long it takes for that? Dan -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 5:26 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Check size of large directory On 12/03/2010 07:29 AM, Sebastian Ries wrote: > Hi > >> The check_folder_size.sh script will probably suit your needs well. > > Yes, I found scripts for this. > The Problem is that a du within this folder takes about 2 minutes. > That's why I told that it is a very large directory with many files) > In that case there's not much a plugin can do about it. The process is bound by IO and no amount of hacking will make it go noticeably faster. > The other side is that the content within this directory is generated > once a day so I wanted to run the "du" after generating the content of > the file and let nagios just check the result that was written in a > file. > Then I'd suggest you write a plugin yourself that does just that. Any old language should work for such a simple task, really. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
