-is asking the machines how much data they are going to dump\. This process can take a while if hosts are down or it takes them a long time to generate estimates\.
-.SH "AUTHOR"
-.PP
-Olafur Gudmundsson
-<ogud@tis\.com>, Trusted Information Systems, formerly at University of Maryland, College Park: Original text
-.PP
-Stefan G\. Weichinger,
-<sgw@amanda\.org>, maintainer of the
-\fIAmanda\fR\-documentation: XML\-conversion