- From: Anselm Baird_Smith <abaird@www43.inria.fr>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 15:19:33 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Doug Crow <doug_crow@cacheflow.com>
- Cc: "http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com" <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Doug Crow writes: > I have seen where groups are publishing specWeb96 numbers approaching = > 1000 URLs per second. Using the common log file format and assuming an = > average entry of 100 bytes this translates to over 8 Gigabytes of data = > in a 24 hour period. =20 > > Given the importance of tracking hit information with respect to = > advertising revenue and in some cases user profiling, what are servers = > doing with the size of this log information? =20 > > Is the hit-metering draft that I have seen reference to going to address = > this? > > Is there a more appropriate forum for a question such as this? You may consider giving a look to: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-logfile.html Which propose a smart log file format to deal with the number of write accesses to the http log. Anselm.
Received on Friday, 18 October 1996 06:27:22 UTC