How to control the frequency of awstats updates

**newbies** · 07-31-2004 11:51 PM

Hi,

I searched this forum and couldn't find an answer.

How can I control how frequent awstats updates the stats for all site or a specific site? I checked the default cronjob of root and didn't see any awstats script there. Please let me know which script control this.

Thannks.

**chirpy** · 08-01-2004 05:15 AM

WHM > Tweak Settings > "Number of days between processing log files and bandwidth usage (default 1, decimal values are ok)"

**newbies** · 08-01-2004 01:20 PM

Thanks chirpy.

How about if I want to update every 15 min?

Actually I have get around as a user (I only want this user to be updated right now) by setting up a cron job as this
perl /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/awstats.pl -config=domain.com -update=1

I know awstats has an option -updateall, but it seems not work with the cpanel installtion, If yes, I would use cront job as root to update for all users.

**chirpy** · 08-01-2004 04:06 PM

The problem with updating much more that every 12 hours is that you're likely to overload your server. Awstats (like most stats programs) are heavily CPU, memory and I/O intensive. I would suggest that you leave cPanel top update them once a day and enable the option in WHM > Tweak Settings > "Allow users to update Awstats from cPanel"

**AlexAT** · 08-12-2004 04:12 PM

but:
when you set it up to work once a day it will generate BIG load because it needs update stats for each day.

when you st it up to update each 2 hours it will generate much less load.

am I right?

**chirpy** · 08-12-2004 04:21 PM

True. The easiest way to find out is to give it a go

**AlexAT** · 08-12-2004 04:25 PM

I don't want

**newbies** · 08-12-2004 04:34 PM

I agree.

If I run the stats every 15 min, it's like a breeze and won't cause spikes to the server. If it runs every 12 hr or more, especially you have set dns lookup, it can freeze your server as I have observed on a VPS.

**EMS** · 08-21-2004 05:29 AM

In "tweak settings" - if I wanted to run AWStats every 2 hours, what decimal value would I enter ?

Sorry - I'm mathmatically dyslexic so your help would be appreciated.

**chirpy** · 08-22-2004 04:11 AM

To run every 2 hours, you'd want to set it to 2/24 = 0.083

**EMS** · 08-22-2004 09:02 AM

Many Thanks.

**dwh2** · 02-16-2005 03:16 PM

I'd like to hear real world experience. Is setting to decimals better?

**AlexAT** · 02-16-2005 03:21 PM

It depends.
Now I have 0.4 and happy enough.

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