On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:13:16 -0800, Ravi Kondamuru wrote: > Denis, These are 32bit, 64bit counters (essentially numbers). Bob, There > are well over 10K counters in the log file that are updated every 5 > secs. If a counter1's graph was requested, log will have to be parsed > once to get the data points. If a user asked for a counter2, now it > needs to be retrieved from the log file. Which essentially means having > to go through the logfile again. This is because i want to try to avoid > using a database to store values after parsing the file. thanks, > Ravi.
Instead of using a file, why not use pipes? Using pipes is surely much faster than reading from a file, and using pipes allow you to send log entries in "messages" which means you don't need to reparse the whole logfile on every update, just the parts that have changed. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
