NYCPHP Meetup

[Jeff Siegel]

The problem seems to be that some things are not making it into the logs 
(so slicing-and-dicing won't help) though we know, for certain, that it 
should be in the logs. After all, we have a three-step form procedure so 
we know that people make it to step 3. However, this doesn't show up in 
the logs. (We know they get to step 3 because the info they provide goes 
into a database.)


Jeff S.

Rolan Yang wrote:

> Actually, it would be quite easy to import. You would only need a 5 line 
> shell
> script  which sliced and diced the existing logs. Then a mysql query to 
> "load data infile into table blag_logs".
> 
> For low bandwidth sites, I don't see a problem with mod_log_sql, however 
> if you are
> serving lots of pages, you could quickly saturate your network or disk 
> i/o bandwidth (depending
> on if your mysql is on the same machine or another).
> 
> As an example, I'm hosting a pretty high traffic phpBB for someone right 
> now. Sometimes
> the site is hit with like 30+ page requests/sec. PhpBB is quite a hog 
> and when people are viewing
> a page full of posts that contain 100+smiley icons, etc (each one 
> counting as a hit) you can
> easily run up like 3000 hits/sec. Each hit is an entry in the apache 
> log... Now if you had mod_log_sql
> running, your server would have to manage 3000+ mysql inserts per sec.. 
> that would place a serious
> load not only on your disk i/o but also cpu. What makes matters worse 
> with phpBB, is (and I'm not
> completely sure about this) that the pages are set to "nocache" so 
> everything is reloaded upon
> every page access. This keeps the load on the server consistently high 
> throughout the day.
> 
> ~Rolan
> 
> Jeff Siegel wrote:
> 
>  >Thanks for pointing this out. I remember that article.
>  >I'm looking for a "brain-dead" solution, i.e., one that can be
>  >implemented in minutes.
>  >
>  >Jeff
> 
> 
> David Mintz wrote:
> 
>  > Jeremy Zawodny has some interesting ideas about using MySQL
>  > for logging: http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-10/lamp_01.html
>  >
>  >
>  > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Jeff Siegel wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >>The web stats provided by my client's ISP (shared hosting) leaves a lot
>  >>to be desired (seems that some things are not being recorded in the
>  >>stats log). Just wondering if there is a PHP/MySQL-based solution that
>  >>will allow us to get some real stats.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > ---
>  > David Mintz
>  > http://davidmintz.org/
>  >
>  >         "Anybody else got a problem with Webistics?" -- Sopranos 24:17
>  > _______________________________________________
>  > talk mailing list
>  > talk at lists.nyphp.org
>  > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
>  >
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at lists.nyphp.org
> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
>