[analog-help] using cache files, REQUEST report too big

[Aengus]

kevin creason <ckevinj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have started using cache files, updated monthly because we roll
>> logs on monthly basis. this is nice, I now can compare July to six
>> months ago in a little bar graph info. Very sweet.
>>
>> I've noticed that after six months my reports are huge. 26mb huge.
>> Yes, that is very large for an html file.
>> It is the REQUEST section of the report-- it is doing everything.
>> Every single request in current log which is what I want plus the
>> cache which I don't want.
>>
>> I've looked at REQARGSFLOOR but that won't really help. Is there
>> anyway to limit this section to 30 days of data?

If page1.html was accessed once 6 months ago, and once last week, what 
should Analog show in the Request Report? You can configure Analog to 
only include requests that were last accessed in the last 30 days, but 
the count for that URL in the Request Report will include all requests, 
not just the requests that occurred in the last 30 days (so it would 
show as 2 in the example above, not 1).

REQFLOOR -00-00-30d (Only list URLs that were requested in the last 30 
days)
REQFLOOR -00-01-00d (Only list URLs that were requested in the last 
month)

Any URL that only occurred 3 months ago will still be counted for the 
purposes of Total Requests, and Bytes Transferred, etc, but they won't 
be listed in the Request Report.

http://www.analog.cx/docs/othreps.html#FLOOR
http://www.analog.cx/docs/include.html#FROMTO

To figure out how much difference this will make to the size of your 
report, you might want to turn on the Last Date column in your Request 
report (REQCOLS NRSD, for example) and then sort your request Report by 
Date - REQSORTBY DATE.

http://www.analog.cx/docs/othreps.html#othCOLS
http://www.analog.cx/docs/othreps.html#SORTBY

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