Re: [Summary-Talk] memory: Recent Visits

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/11/03 1:46 PM Cameron Knowlton (cameronk@igods.com) wrote:

>I have a client with a huge number of Recent Visits (report F5)... 11613 
>pages of results, in fact.

That is not unusual. The Recent Visits report lists every host in the 
database, from most recent to oldest.

>Would this consume a large amount of RAM?

Yes and no. Host records are used to build the Recent Visits report, and 
they can take a large amount of RAM. However, they are used throughout 
the program, you can't just get rid of the Recent Visits report.

>I currently have my Memory filters set to:
>
>Expire hosts and failed requests: Weekly
>Expire req. and ref. if not hit every N days: 14
>Hit threshold for time history reports: 5
>
>Are these the right settings to reduce these result pages, or am I 
>barking up the wrong tree?

That depends on what your goals are. From your previous message I assume 
that you are trying to reduce the memory used by Summary. Those are all 
good settings for doing that, but they may or may not have much effect in 
any given situation, depending on details of what appears in the log 
files. You need to look at the memory section of the Program Status 
report and decide what to do based on what kinds of items it says are 
taking most of your memory.

If you tell me what the Memory by Type section of your Program Status 
report says, I could make some specific suggestions.

Jason

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