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How to control the frequency of awstats updates

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  1. newbies

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    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.
     
    #1 newbies, Jul 31, 2004
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    WHM > Tweak Settings > "Number of days between processing log files and bandwidth usage (default 1, decimal values are ok)"
     
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    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.
     
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    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"
     
    #4 chirpy, Aug 1, 2004
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    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?
     
    #5 AlexAT, Aug 12, 2004
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    True. The easiest way to find out is to give it a go ;)
     
    #6 chirpy, Aug 12, 2004
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    I don't want :)
     
    #7 AlexAT, Aug 12, 2004
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
    #9 EMS, Aug 21, 2004
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    To run every 2 hours, you'd want to set it to 2/24 = 0.083
     
    #10 chirpy, Aug 22, 2004
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    Many Thanks.
     
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    I'd like to hear real world experience. Is setting to decimals better?
     
    #12 dwh2, Feb 16, 2005
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    It depends.
    Now I have 0.4 and happy enough.
     
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