Re: [Summary-Talk] Summary Speed

[John May <jmaymailing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OS X server 10.2.3 - G3 333mHz 512MB ram - 335 sub reports - no 
filtering - 1500 lines/sec.  Maybe we're just gonna need a faster 
machine.  Takes about 6 hours to process 60 days worth of logs...

	- John


>Just curious: what types of speeds are people getting? On my machine g3
>400
>running oS X 10.2.4, unfiltered I get around 30,000 records a second: sub
>reports (3) and filtering local ip's out: 13-15,000 per sec.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John May" <jmaymailing@pointinspace.com>
>To: <summary-talk@lists.summary.net>
>Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 5:14 PM
>Subject: Re: [Summary-Talk] Summary Speed
>
>
>>  Jason -
>>
>>  I'm not running into any RAM limitations.  No more sub-reports or
>>  filtering exist in the new setup vs. the old one.
>>
>>  What do you mean by "filtering things out" to speed things up?  I've
>>  minimized as much as possible on the Memory config page.
>>
>>  - John
>>
>>  >The most important thing to check is to see if you are running out of
>>  >physical memory and starting to swap to virtual memory. Take a look at
>>  >the General:Program Status report and look at the Memory used number. You
>>  >want to make sure that you have more physical RAM than Summary is using.
>>  >Otherwise it will start to slow down dramatically.
>>  >
>>  >If you have more sub-reports, or much more filtering, than you used to
>>  >that could also make a significant difference.
>>  >
>>  >Otherwise Summary should be within 10% of the speed it used to be.
>>  >
>>  >Disabling reports, on the Disable Reports configuration page, has no
>>  >effect on speed. Filtering things out will usually speed things up, as
>>  >will most of the memory saving settings on the Memory configuration page.
>>  >
>>  >Good Luck
>>  >Jason
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >On 3/23/03 2:46 PM John May (jmaymailing@pointinspace.com) wrote:
>>  >
>>  >>I'm not doing DNS lookups at all.  It may be that more reports are
>>  >>generated with the newer version of Summary - we were running a
>>  >>considerably older version on OS 9.
>>  >>
>>  >>What are the best things to turn off to speed up processing?  Does
>>  >>each report that is enabled in Summary require more processing time?
>>  >>Eg: should I start disabling reports to speed things up back to
>  > >>normal?

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