Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:52:47 +0200 From: Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.7 Download Statistics Message-ID: <20021010155247.GB20985@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <20021010082732.G1982@freebsdmall.com> References: <20021010082732.G1982@freebsdmall.com>
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Hi, Murray Stokely wrote on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:27:32AM -0700: > I'm very interested in getting download statistics about 4.7-RELEASE. > In the old days with wcarchive.cdrom.com, it was very easy to track > the increasing popularity of FreeBSD through downloads. This would be > a lot more work now with so many mirrors spread around the world, but > I think it is certainly worth while. > > Does anyone have any bright ideas about how best to collect and > tabulate the FTP logs for 4.7 from tens of different servers and > generate a unified download report? I don't have much time to > actually help with this endeavor, but it "Sure would be nice", and it > couldn't take more than a page of Perl and lots of coordination with > the various site admins. I think it will be difficult to get real numbers, but maybe its possible to get an idea or a trend. For our site one of the problems is the various sources of download like FTP, HTTP, RSYNC. Further aborted downloads can be continued. And one needs to have a clear idea, what exactly should be counted. For 4.7-RELEASE I can imagine the following: - ISO image downloads - release distribution file downloads The question remains, whole ISO files? Just the install-iso? How about repeated downloads? To track accesses in the releases/4.7-RELEASE and releases/ISO-IMAGES/4.7 directories would be a good start. However, even this is tricky using FTP, since a RETR of "bin.aa" would no longer reflect that it followed a CWD "pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE". Its a bit easier with http downloads, and rsync I did not check the logs, yet. I would grateful for any tools and suggestion, how to efficiently track downloads in a sensible way. I tried 'xferstats' once trimming our proftpd to provide wu-ftpd compatible logfiles, but xferstats crashed after a few 100MBs of logdata and has no way of 'remembering' once analysed results. "analog" may work, but I remember I tried that once, but gave up. I am willing to provide any stats, you might find useful. Best regards, Daniel -- IRCnet: Mr-Spock - Work is for people, who don't surf - *Daniel Lang * dl@leo.org * +49 89 289 18532 * http://www.leo.org/~dl/* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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