On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
> The first time we ran analog on our 18 months of log files, it took nearly
> 13 hours doing DNS lookups. This didn't surprise me as the report came back
> saying we had 23,943 distinct hosts. I happened to look at it yesterday
> (after a couple weeks of cfg tweeking) and it said only 6,034 distinct hosts
> served. Today it says 8,092. I really don't believe that out of 7901
> requests yesterday, that we had more than 2000 hosts who had never vistied
> our system before (that's less than four requests per host, which means
> every one did not completely load our index page).
It's not impossible. We get about one new host every ten requests, and one of
the most popular pages (my backgammon page) has lots of different graphics on
it. Why not look in the logfile to see what a typical host might do? Maybe
they don't even come in via your front page?
> If that is true, and we
> did have 2000 new hosts yesterday, then our total should be a lot higher
> (more like 25,000) (or our index page needs to be changed to make people
> stay :). I don't have any host aliases in our cfg file. What affects this
> number and why might it have changed?
>
All sorts of things affect it. For a start any INCLUDEs and EXCLUDEs. Are you
analysing the same lines as in the previous case when you had 24k hosts?
--
Stephen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, England
"Ad infinitum, if not ad nauseam." (Interviewee, BBC Radio 4)
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