On Wed, 22 May 2002, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:26:42AM +0100, Stephen Turner wrote: > > > d) This would be hard. It's clear that it requires two passes through the > > logfile, isn't it? (Or storing a _lot_ of state: see docs/faq.html#faq128) > > Yes, that's true. But it'd only need to save the cross-referenced stuff for > one minute and then could throw it away if that minute weren't one of the > n busiest. >
You're assuming that the requests come in in chronological order. > > > c) Analog does tell you which is the busiest five minutes, at the bottom of > > the Five Minute Report (for your favourite definition of "busiest"). > > Right, I know that -- but only the very busiest five. It'd be nice if it > could tell the n busiest. "n" being some reasonable number. Also, this > appears to be over the last exactly 24 hours, which I guess is okay but it'd > be nicer to also have the information for 7 days and all time. It's all time. Of course, you can get busiest in the last week by restricting analog just to that time period, if you don't mind another pass through the logfile. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
