Help understanding some Lire conceptual issues

[Brad Knowles]

At 5:49 PM -0600 2004/03/03, Jim Lancaster wrote:

>  2. The idea of mailing raw log files to an analyzing/reporting engine is
>  also a stroke of genius. It completely by-passes the messy issues of log
>  collection and storage.

	E-mail works as a testing mechanism, but not much else.  It 
absolutely does not scale.  It is not at all unusual to see log files 
that are tens or hundreds of megabytes in size, or even a gigabyte or 
more.  At one previous employer, we were generating web proxy logs 
that were over a gigabyte per hour.

	Still, it's a nice testing mechanism, and can usually be abused 
to handle small logs, but since e-mail isn't guaranteed reliable, I 
wouldn't use it in a production environment.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
     -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+
!w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++)
tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)

-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to questions-request at logreport.org with a subject of 
"unsubscribe". Trouble? Send an email with subject "help" to 
questions-request at logreport.org