[analog-help] Dates Out Of Range In Request ReportGeneratedFromCache File

[Aengus]

On Monday, September 03, 2007 11:41 AM [EDT],
tobias.schaefer at orf.at <tobias.schaefer at orf.at> wrote:

> Not wanting to say you are not right here, too; just wondering where
> the date
> information might come from. Is it still in the cache file, at least
> partially?

Analog does record some time information - how many requests occurred in 
every 5 minute period, for example. But it doesn't record which requests 
occurred within any given 5 minute (or any other) period. So you can use 
your cache file for September to find out that X number of requests occurred 
on the 17th of September, for example. But you can't tell how many of those 
requests were for a specific file. Any Request Report that you generate from 
a cache file, using parameters that don't exactly match the parameters used 
to create the cache file will probably contain incorrect and or misleading 
information.

A Gig of logfiles per day will easly compress to 20Gig per year. That's a 
decades worth of log files on a $100 hard drive. There rally isn't much 
point in discarding logfiles, unless they are so large that you encounter 
computational bounds.

Aengus