On 5/1/08 2:20 PM, "Sarah Reichelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:52 PM, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Anyone have any experience logging events for several days or more (an event >> happens each second).... is it better to write them out as text files broken >> up into a few hundred lines - or write it to a text file using the append >> syntax (not done this myself). It must be a common task that people have >> done before, but as it would take a day or so to test whether I'd chosen the >> most robust solution well hell thought I'd ask here :) > > I tend to accumulate events in a field or custom property and write to > file every so often but not after every event. Showing them in a field > is very useful during testing, but slower than using CPs as the data > gets larger, so once you are sure it is doing what you want, swap to > using CPs, but with a method for displaying them if you need to check. > > I would also write to a date-stamped file so that you start a new log > file at midnight. This will keep the file sizes down if the app is > running continuously. > > Sarah ------------ A few suggestions from my limited experience: 1 devise a very terse encoding for older messages to keep the size much smaller. You can scan the file to convert back to verbose mode if needed 2 sequentially name (the seconds & "logEvents.txt") and start a new one if the number of chars > yourMaxSizeDesired 3 keep the log in RAM, such as a custom property, and write once. 4 use the compress command in Rev to reduce file size 5 send yourself an email when the new file is created 6 send yourself an email and include the logFile.zip as an attachment 7 filter the log lines for "*error*" or such and create an 'errLog.txt' 8 email only the errors to you along with the time and date stamp Hope this helps Jim Ault Las Vegas _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
