Re: RE: System Resources

["Schoolmarm" <schoolmarm@schoolmarm.org>]

>>Extrapolate further to your 80,000 hits/8 weeks it would be about 1Mb/day
 (without serving navbars. . ). <<
Thank you Jock for your input. This amount of pull appears to be a
reasonable figure that shouldn't upset my host and eases my mind. :)
Barbara
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jock Dempsey" <guru@anvilfire.com>
To: <ringlinklist@gunnar.cc>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 12:14 PM
Subject: [ringlinklist] RE: System Resources
>
> 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.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> 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/
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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.