On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Peter Samuel writes:
> > The reson I'm doing it this way is that my log files are reasonably
> > large (8Mb per day) and groking a big file every 5 minutes to extract
> > a small section is loading up the system a bit too much.
>
> That's why you use lots of little files (on average the same size as
> the time period you wish to analyze, so that you need only examine 2X
> the amount of data).
That's one of the reasons why I wrote a logfile-server for remote
monitoring. It keeps track of where it last read to and only extracts the
remaining part of the file. It's not perfect, but it works fine for my
purposes.
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