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Nov 24, 2006, 3:29 AM
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On 11/24/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell[at]gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11/24/06, Antonio Gulli <gulli[at]di.unipi.it> wrote:
> > Is wiki using apache web server or something equivalent server?
> > I was referring to the access.log file
>
> Although we use Apache, we do not store an access.log.
> We also use squid, but have disabled logging in that as well.
>
> At peak we are serving over 20,000 requests per second. At this
> activity level logging would present a non-negligible performance and
> administrative overhead.
>
> Lets pretend for a moment that all access hit apache:
>
> My local mediawiki installation on apache produces log entries of
> 232.13 bytes per hit on average. I would expect that my log entries
> would be shorter than the entries we'd see in production.
>
> Over a day we are receiving about 1,188,345,600 http requests.
>
> This would be 256.9 GiB/day in access logs.
>
> At 7.8 terabytes of log data to simply preserve a month's history,
> keeping full access logs would be both unreasonable and wasteful.
>
> If you have some especially interesting research ideas, and your
> research can be done on smaller amounts of data that we might be
> collecting (such as the wikicharts data) then I would be glad to
> discuss the possibilities. But it would be best to take that
> discussion off list...
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