Calin Damian wrote:
> On Monday 07 May 2001 09:49 pm, you wrote:
>
>> From: "Calin Damian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>> Again it's not about analyzing a 10 MB log. It's about analyzing 1 GB
>>> logs/PER SITE/per month.
>>
>> Look, if you want daily and hourly statistics, why on earth are you
>> creating a monthly log file and complaining that it's inefficient to rerun
>> analog multiple times to get the mini-stats that you're looking for? There
>> are no significant efficiencies in creating a single large log file rather
>> than multiple smaller ones, and there can be big inefficiencies if you
>> want to break down the data.
>>
>> To insist that Analog be changed, instead of configuring your web server
>> to produce more useful log files is unreasonable, particularly when the
>> particular measurement you're looking at isn't even particularly
>> meaningful.
>
>
> I apreciate your care and advices. Please read all messages in thread and
> the _ENTIRE_ message you _replied_ to to understand what I had to say. Then,
> if you still don't understand I will explain you on your private e-mail
> address (to protect the subscribers of this mailing list of unwanted traffic).
Well, I can't speak for Aengus, but I _have_ read the entire thread and
would have made a similar comment if he hadn't gotten there first.
Analog currently is not designed to produce statistics for different
periods of time in a single report. If you want Analog to compute these
numbers, then it has to be entirely redesigned to produce statistics for
all periods. This may be something Stephen has considered, but I would
guess he's more partial to the current FROM/TO method which allows
arbitrary periods to be covered.
If you break your logfiles into smaller chunks (say, rotate them
nightly), then producing all these period reports is very simple with
FROM/TO. You can even use the cache files to handle incremental
processing and improve your weekly and monthly report speed.
--
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
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