RE: System Resources

[Jock Dempsey <guru@anvilfire.com>]

Traffic Bandwidth Report:
This embarassingly low traffic report may give you a hint of real server
load.  This traffic is generated by approximately 20 sites (out of 150 in
the process of moving).  This is a 22 day report (starting from ground
zero).  This ring HAD 18,000 hits per 8 week period before Black Tuesday.
The new ring is only seeing 6% of the old traffic :(
Extrapolated to full function this ring with 100 members will create 650kb
per month traffic.  Microscopic traffic on a server that sees 300+ Mb per day.
Extrapolate further to your 80,000 hits/8 weeks it would be about 1Mb/day
(without serving navbars. . ).  I think I got that right the third time. . .
We are doing some things differently than most Ringlink systems.  We are
serving javascript and graphics the same as Yahoo.  That appears to
represent aproximately half the total.  There will also be banners on the
list page that we will be serving but are currently from off site.
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Average successful requests for pages per day: 19 (18) [really sad]
Distinct files requested: 260 (121) 
Distinct hosts served: 2,380 (1,210) 
Data transferred: 27.940 Mbytes (9.303 Mbytes) 
Average data transferred per day: 1.270 Mbytes (1.329 Mbytes) 
reqs: %bytes: file type
----: ------: ---------
2247: 47.60%: .pl
6689: 32.32%: .js
 709:  5.86%: .jpg  [JPEG graphics]
 285:  5.00%: .htm  [Hypertext Markup Language]
 734:  4.68%: .gif  [GIF graphics]
 140:  3.62%: [directories]
 569:  0.78%: .css
  12:  0.13%: .html [Hypertext Markup Language]
   8:  0.02%: [not listed: 3 extensions]
reqs: %bytes: directory
----: ------: ---------
2247: 47.60%: /cgi-bin/
5753: 39.50%: /data/
 414:  7.45%: [root directory]
 680:  3.14%: /images/
1717:  1.21%: /adverts/
 565:  0.77%: /include/
  17:  0.32%: /misc/
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The "file ID in use" question.  Is it possible that some other file error
is being generated and Ringlink is resolving to "in use"?   I would also
wonder about the specific file names in use.  Leading spaces, illegal char
or breaks in the filename might return bad results.
Jock D.