From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jul 25 20:18:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA11061 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 20:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA11056 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 20:18:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id WAA18364; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 22:19:25 -0500 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma018359; Fri Jul 25 22:19:22 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19970725221756.00c885a4@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 22:17:56 -0500 To: Jim Shankland From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: analog and Apache? Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199707251802.LAA15819@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:02 AM 7/25/97 -0700, Jim Shankland wrote: >Seems to me that just a few days ago, someone on this list made reference >to a tool named "analog" that lets you turn off reverse DNS on Apache, >and grind the IP addresses in the log files into host names asynchronously. >Now of course, I've lost that mail, and someone is interested in it. >I've searched the archives via the FreeBSD Web server, to no avail. > >If someone has a copy of that mail message, I'd sure appreciate seeing >it again. Alternatively, a pointer to the "analog" tool would be great. >(A search for "analog" on altavista turned up the expected 300,000 >unrelated hits.) Uh, you may not want to do this. I found that after 4 weeks of running IP logging and using the results from 3 servers that 5 hours to run reports vs 5 minutes was just a bit too much. There is another problem with this as well. If a site has a very large logfile, 10 Mb, 100 Mb, or more even, Analog will start using a lot of memory. Once the server starts swapping it takes a bit of a performance hit. Not to mention that it was thrashing our name servers. Personally I find that FBSD and Apache work well together and with tweaking and ample memory you can handle a lot of traffic. The "savings" of not logging IP was non-exisistant. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990