Check size of large directory

[Daniel Wittenberg]

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:ae at 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.

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