> I stuck to 5.x because of the stories about 6.x. We upgraded almost as soon as we could because we were having problems with 5.x corrupting its own database and some other issues.
The first builds of 6.x were fast, but they were buggy. Then, they got the functionality squared away, but generating reports was slow (though not much slower than 5.x). Finally, the 6.2 build pulled it all together. We haven't had a single problem with that. > How > much memory is v6 using? Currently I'm drawing about > 15 mb, but have plenty to spare on the server. We're reporting stats on a couple hundred Web sites hosted off of several Web servers. The collector runs on the same box as the stats and the database engine (mySQL). Our current memory usage is: Collector: 70 Megs LiveStats: 42 Megs mySQL: 5 Megs Basically, LiveStats is using all the available memory in the system as, say, Microsoft SQL Server would do. I think part of the reason that the new LiveStats is so much faster than prior versions is because of 1) the distributed model and 2) better memory management. Our current uptime is only 17 days because of a Windows 2000 patch. We haven't booted the server because of a LiveStats related problem since installing the latest version. By the way, DeepMetrix actually recommends using Microsoft SQL Server for better performance. However, since just about every report request generates in a second or two, we don't see the need to place the burden on our SQL Server. > Was upgrading relatively painless? The upgrade (especially in the latest build) was pretty painless. When we did it, there wasn't a completely automated way to bring the data over from the old installation. You had to export the data from the old Web servers and import them into the new site. What we should have done was just unzipped all the log files for all the sites and allowed LiveStats to re-import them. That would have probably been less tedious in the long run (we missed some, we imported some twice, we imported some into the wrong server, etc.). Additionally, since the new LiveStats extracts so much more information from the logs, it would have given us much historical data that a lot of our Web sites do not have. Anyway, hope this helps. We are really pretty happy with the latest version. Though we probably would have been better served to wait out the first few builds, we were anxious to get away from 5.x. Benjamin S. Rogers http://www.c4.net/ v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
