What's different with scavenge and fixtraffic command ?

[quangnhut123]

I do two command
1. sh /script/fixtraffic
2. sh /script/scavenge

Seem to be it do same thing update new bandwidth and disk space metter, domain count , ftp user count.....
What's is different between two command ?

[chrisf]

Scavenge does a few more things,  I know one of them is to gracefully restart httpd, and something else, I run scavenge once a day and have fixtraffic running every 4 hours.

Not a comprehensive answer, sorry, but they are slightly different.

[quangnhut123]

Scavenge does a few more things,  I know one of them is to gracefully restart httpd, and something else, I run scavenge once a day and have fixtraffic running every 4 hours.

Not a comprehensive answer, sorry, but they are slightly different.

i saw the scavenge time in kloxo panel. Can i set time to do it automatic here ?
And why run fixtraffic every 4 hours. Both is update metter. 

[chrisf]

Scavenge time from panel is unpredictable.   Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't work.

http://forum.mratwork.com/kloxo-mr-technical-helps/error-traffic-not-work/msg30684/#msg30684

Every 4 hours is for shared hosting business, a client can eat up a lot of resources in 4 hours!    If you only run it once a day, well, I've had client's use gigabytes over their plans.  On my full production servers, I run fixtraffic every 2 hours.

[quangnhut123]

Okay i understand that but when you run one of them the result is same so why you have to run both 2 command ?
And do you run it by add to cron job in the panel ? Please give me a tutorial ~!

[MRatWork]

I didn't use Scavenge or cronjob for fixtraffic. No issue related to traffic report. Yes, traffic will be updated everyday in default and using Scavenge/fixtraffic will be updated immediately.

[quangnhut123]

I didn't use Scavenge or cronjob for fixtraffic. No issue related to traffic report. Yes, traffic will be updated everyday in default and using Scavenge/fixtraffic will be updated immediately.

But should we use fixtraffic or scavenge script to update. I just want to know the different

[MRatWork]

fixtraffic only execute gettraffic.php and collectquota.php. But, scavenge ALSO execute schedulebackup.php, clearsession.php and mebackup.php beside other some functions.

[chrisf]

backups, that's the part of scavenge

Now, we have been down this road MANY times.  Scavenge skips days, doesn't always run, idk, I couldn't even find the cron where the panel set it.  Many of us running production shared hosting noticed skips in stats.

Second, resource usage does not magically update!  If you run scavenge once a day, and a client spends all day uploading, downloading, video, whatever, resource limits can and have been abused.  I run a fixtraffic cron to keep client resource usuage up to date (4 hours isn't really up to date, but better than 24!). This is another reason we need quota use in KloxoMR.

that's all.

[quangnhut123]

backups, that's the part of scavenge

Now, we have been down this road MANY times.  Scavenge skips days, doesn't always run, idk, I couldn't even find the cron where the panel set it.  Many of us running production shared hosting noticed skips in stats.

Second, resource usage does not magically update!  If you run scavenge once a day, and a client spends all day uploading, downloading, video, whatever, resource limits can and have been abused.  I run a fixtraffic cron to keep client resource usuage up to date (4 hours isn't really up to date, but better than 24!). This is another reason we need quota use in KloxoMR.

that's all.

Ah ha in panel do you see Cron Scheduled Tasks . I think it can excute as schedule the command you want. I'm not test but you can try it.
And in your method how to make scavenge run once a day and fixtraffic per 2 hours by crontab via command ?

[chrisf]

http://forum.mratwork.com/kloxo-mr-technical-helps/error-traffic-not-work/msg30684/#msg30684

That is how I did it, follow the link

Just add every 2 hours to complex cron instead of every 4.

[quangnhut123]

http://forum.mratwork.com/kloxo-mr-technical-helps/error-traffic-not-work/msg30684/#msg30684

That is how I did it, follow the link

Just add every 2 hours to complex cron instead of every 4.

Thanks i try to run fixtraffic per hour and scavenge per day complete !

[quangnhut123]

How to know if ir run success. I enter my email to cron email but no received any yet

[quangnhut123]

http://forum.mratwork.com/kloxo-mr-technical-helps/error-traffic-not-work/msg30684/#msg30684

That is how I did it, follow the link

Just add every 2 hours to complex cron instead of every 4.

How to know if ir run success. I enter my email to cron email but no received any yet

[chrisf]

If you used my instructions from that other post, we piped all output to null, this is so you don't get any email.  If you want email, just enter the command without the pipe to null.