Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:06:35 -0700 From: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> To: Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>, hubs@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.7 Download Statistics Message-ID: <20021010090635.K1982@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <20021010155247.GB20985@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>; from dl@leo.org on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 05:52:47PM %2B0200 References: <20021010082732.G1982@freebsdmall.com> <20021010155247.GB20985@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 05:52:47PM +0200, Daniel Lang wrote:
> I think it will be difficult to get real numbers, but maybe
> its possible to get an idea or a trend.
1. Number of bytes transferred from ${dir} directory.
2. Number of files transferred from ${dir} directory.
where ${dir} is /pub/FreeBSD, /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE, the
ISO images dirs, etc..
> The question remains, whole ISO files? Just the install-iso?
> How about repeated downloads?
Are repeated downloads substantial? I assumed they would be
insignificant.
> To track accesses in the releases/4.7-RELEASE and
> releases/ISO-IMAGES/4.7 directories would be a good start.
> However, even this is tricky using FTP, since a RETR of "bin.aa"
> would no longer reflect that it followed a
> CWD "pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE".
I don't understand why thats a problem. The log is not going to
report "bin.aa", it is going to report the full pathname. The number
of files and number of bytes is a good start, and something we can
compare to the old ftp.cdrom.com numbers.
These should include FTP and HTTP traffic.
> I would grateful for any tools and suggestion, how to efficiently
> track downloads in a sensible way. I tried 'xferstats' once
> trimming our proftpd to provide wu-ftpd compatible logfiles,
> but xferstats crashed after a few 100MBs of logdata and has no
> way of 'remembering' once analysed results.
> "analog" may work, but I remember I tried that once, but
> gave up.
We'll see what others say, I always just wrote Perl scripts to
generate reports the way I wanted them. I've used analog for web data
though.
> I am willing to provide any stats, you might find useful.
Cool, thanks.
- Murray
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