Re: Re: Subject: IIS4 ODBC LOGGING TO POSTGRES - CRASH HELP :)

Yes, but it would have the drawback (in addition to the loss of
real-time access to the information) of losing the ability to log the
web activity in chronological sequence, unless he has *very* tight
control over the clocks on all 150 web servers. Of course, this may or
may not be important to the original poster.

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Mark Radulovich wrote:

> Jonathan,
>
> I think you would see improved performance and stability if you dump
> the IIS log to a regular file (the default setting) and then run a
> nightly process to dump the old files to the database.
>
> This has the advantage of being more reliable (fewer points of
> failure) and also faster, since the speed of logging affects the web
> server speed.
>
> -Mark Radulovich
>
> =================
> Jonathan Marchand writes:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Anyone has experience with IIS4 (SP6a) and ODBC logging for websites? I'm
> logging about 150 websites to an SQL (postgres/linux) database thru ODBC.
> But for some reasons, IIS sometimes crash. I get a Dr. Watson screen and it
> just tells me that inetinfo has died.

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