Re: [Summary-Talk] reducing RAM: Paths

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/10/03 2:26 PM Cameron Knowlton (cameronk@igods.com) wrote:

>I have a client who loves to make new, temporary URLs. consequently, 
>their stats' RAM footprint is  25% paths.
>
>They don't have an obvious pattern to reduce through aliasing (e.g. 
>example.com/email.cgi/....), so aliasing won't help me here.
>
>Other than just disabling PATHs in the memory config screen, is there 
>anything I can do reduce this particular RAM consumption?

Not really. Disabling the paths report, aliasing the requests to fewer 
requests, or filtering out the requests, are the only things you can do 
to reduce memory taken by paths. If you are having problems with the 
requests related memory you could set "Expire req. and ref. if not hit 
every N days (0 - don't)" to something like 7 and that could help.

>I notice that many of their local referrers show up as example.com, while 
>the others show up as www.example.com. Could this be consuming 
>unnecessary RAM?

Assuming you have other local domains names configured correctly, this 
would take just a tiny bit of memory. It wouldn't affect the paths 
related memory at all.

Jason

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