Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-31 Thread Robert Garrett
Matthew Dillon wrote: I think a hammerd is a good idea or more likely a 'hammer cleanup' with a deamon-mode option that leaves it running in the background, but operating on the disk very lightly (as in very, VERY lightly) until the time schedule tells it that it really

Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
I think a hammerd is a good idea or more likely a 'hammer cleanup' with a deamon-mode option that leaves it running in the background, but operating on the disk very lightly (as in very, VERY lightly) until the time schedule tells it that it really has to run harder.

Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-19 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:31 PM, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: What about hammerd? * Starts when system starts * Wakes up every 10 seconds or so to check current system load/memory usage to estimate if its appropriate to run a cleanup operation at this time. * Can have a text file

Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-18 Thread Sdävtaker
Probably it will be nicer for desktop users to have a run when history is using more than X space than by periodic. On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 02:49, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: I think we definitely must have hammer cleanup not depending on periodic. Especially laptop/workstation users,

Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Turner
elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: Suggestions? quick-fix / hack wise - probably setup some job to run way more often that checks the status makes a determination - or move the job to something like anacron, etc although, in a laptop situation - you might want to manage this manually -

Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-18 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Chris Turner c.tur...@199technologies.org wrote: elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: Suggestions? quick-fix / hack wise - probably setup some job to run way more often that checks the status makes a determination - or move the job to something like

Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Turner
Samuel J. Greear wrote: That said, I think it would be fine to commit one or more optional stopgap measures/scripts to the RC system, for mobile users and etc., as long as it is well documented that they may go away if a better solution is developed or derived. not to flamebait or something -

Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-18 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Chris Turner c.tur...@199technologies.org wrote: Samuel J. Greear wrote: That said, I think it would be fine to commit one or more optional stopgap measures/scripts to the RC system, for mobile users and etc., as long as it is well documented that they may go

Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-18 Thread elekktretterr
What about hammerd? * Starts when system starts * Wakes up every 10 seconds or so to check current system load/memory usage to estimate if its appropriate to run a cleanup operation at this time. * Can have a text file configuration where you can specify maximum size(GB) of history per PFS or %

Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-17 Thread elekktretterr
I think we definitely must have hammer cleanup not depending on periodic. Especially laptop/workstation users, since they may be running only couple of hours a day. The system should be able to automatically initiate hammer cleanup whenever it's been more than 1 day/x hours since last time it was