I'm in the (apparent) minority of Windows admins on this list. I use QuickDNS myself, and have found it easy & reliable.

I just installed it, and wrote a batch file that points QuickDNS to my analog.cfg file where it finds the path to the IIS log files to process. Then, make sure that your analog.cfg is set to read the DNS cache created by QuickDNS.

my batch is a whopping two lines:
qdns /G something.cfg /Y 192.168.1.1 (where 192.168.1.1 is the IP of my DNS server)
call analog.exe +gsomething.cfg


and something.cfg has this:

DNSFILE dnscache.txt
DNS read


On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:05:15 +0000 Alan Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Use one of the helper applications which work a lot quicker than analog.

http://www.analog.cx/helpers/index.html#dns

QuickDNS has worked for me quite well but as I'm mainly on a Solaris system I use DNSTran.

Rgds

Alan Wright
IT Support Technician
Faculty of Education, Health & Sciences
University of Derby
Western Road, Mickleover, DE3 9GX

http://psychology.derby.ac.uk


At 17:38 06/02/2007, you wrote:
Stephen,

Wow! What a difference! It was the DNS. I had DNS set to WRITE per the IIS 6.0 How-To. When set to NONE it flew through the log files.

This server has 2GB of memory so I couldn't imagine it was that.

One question...If I did want DNS info what is the best way to capture that
for future reports to run quickly?

Perfect! Thanks!

Chip


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Turner
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12:13 PM
To: Support for analog web log analyzer
Subject: Re: [analog-help] Analog taking very log to process

Have you got DNS lookups turned on? If so, turn them off.

Other than that, you may be running out of memory. If the Task Manager shows a high memory usage for analog but low CPU, and you have a lot of disk activity, this is your problem. In that case, try the command
  HOSTLOWMEM 3

--
Stephen Turner
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