Extended Cache Statistics - D2 Update3

Hi,

I am sorry, if you received this announcement twice.

The TERENA sponsored project "Extended Cache Statistics" did announce its
first release of a log file analyser a month ago on TF-Cache. In the
meantime, we were busy providing some new features and many enhancements.
This early version of the cache log file analyser is available to a wider
audience for testing and *feedback*.

The seafood software is known to parse Squid-2 log files and possibly even
Squid-1.(NOVM|1).2[02] log files.

The *parsing* speed is over 26000 lines per second on an Origin 200, even
though seafood is still largely monolithic. The DNS and whois look ups
will be done in separate helper processes just like squid does for DNS.
Expect the very first run to take longer due to DNS and whois look ups
(which can be switched off). If the DNS and IRR caches are 'burnt in', a
day's worth of log data can be completely processed within a quarter of an
hour (including all look ups).

If this roused your interest, please refer to

        http://www.cache.dfn.de/DFN-Cache/Development/Seafood/

for the project, the earlier deliverables, updates, and all software
releases. Note that the tables display the freshest (latest, hottest)
version first.

Some items of your interest might still missing; please refer to the TODO
section of the documentation. The conscious deviations from Deliverable D1
dwindled, but the remaining ones are documented in appendix A.

Seafood is known to be compilable using Solaris (native and g++ 2.8 or
above), Irix (native only) and Linux (g++ 2.8 or above). Other platforms
should be able to compile the project, if using the g++ 2.8 or above
series.

You must use GNU make!

If you find something worthwile not in the TODO list, found a bug, would
like to contribute your own configuration, etc. please send me an email.
We did see some downloads of the earlier versions, and we'd really like to
get some feedback.

Happy Caching,
Dipl.-Ing. Jens-S. Vöckler (voeckler@rvs.uni-hannover.de)
Institute for Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
University of Hanover, Germany; +49 511 762 4726
Received on Fri Sep 03 1999 - 08:25:58 MDT