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f0b1c
04-24-2002, 07:00 PM
we are using our own cp...

transfer stats are generated from apache transfer log (date and transfer in bytes, excluding HTTP headers) for each virtual domain...

then we are attaching +10% for http headers, but stats seems to be very inaccurate, e.g. transfer for whole server is 100GB (mrtg on router) but total http transfer is only 50GB... (FTP & mail - about 1GB)...

can someone tell me better way for generating transfer stats?
is +10% for http headers adequate?

please help me...

regards,

f

vselvara
04-25-2002, 12:54 AM
I've posted many times that using log files to calculate network traffic is very inaccurate. The best way to do it is on the network level (router, switch, etc). There are many ways to create network traffic (http/https, ftp, scp, smtp, pop3).