On: Ouch

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" I don't have an exact breakdown of what just happened, because my logfile analyser is still churning, from 2am last night.That's because the Apache logfile today is over 500Mb it's normally about 150Kb. " The post is timed at 11:31.

I think another lesson learned is that the log analyzer needs to be analyzed.

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If the server's under really hard load - memory or I/O or both, with the swap thrashing - I'd be unsurprised.

I've never checked to see how my stat analyzers fare on half a gig of logs.