How often to Purge?

Amyn · Post by **Amyn** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:50 pm

Forgive the 'noob' question, I did read the FAQ but couldn't find the answer needed.
How often should I purge my logs? Is it better to keep the log and retake the census, or is it better to purge and take a new census, or will it even make a difference? If it is better to keep the logs accumulating data, is there even any point to 'purge' if I remain on my present server?
Any other points or suggestions to improve my data collection is appreciated.

Post by **Rollie** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:51 pm

Doing a PURGE will remove all data from your file. I would suggest Pruning every couple of weeks though as that will remove older data from your local data.

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 4:55 pm

I very rarely purge, I usually just prune to keep the data up to date.

Babs · Post by **Babs** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:33 am

same here. I prune now and then. I only do a /serverpurge to clear out all other data when I have scanned much other realms.

Tartara · Post by **Tartara** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:06 pm

Prune doesn't do a lot for me, as my census file grows to an insane size well before 30 days are up. I usually purge every two weeks or so.

So here's a suggestion for Rollie - add a Prune option to pick how many days back to delete, rather than fixing it at 30...

DM. · Post by **DM.** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:09 pm

Any data over 30 days is not counted in many statistics here. It will update the profile if necessary but otherwise its not counted at all.

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:55 pm

Tartara, you can manually prune for any number of days already.

/censusplus prune X - where X is the amount of days back you want to prune for. I usually do 15 myself

Nemelis · Post by **Nemelis** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:09 pm

Maybe just an idea. Tell people how full their SV file is. (Take a look at how Auctioneer is doing that (I use Auctioneer as an example since 1) I see that it is the only other addon I have with a bigger SV-file

, 2) they have something in place for showing the people how full the SV-file is and 3) since I'm also active on the support-forum/wiki-pages for Auctioneer ))
People can than - after looking how full their SV-file is - decide to prune or even purge the file.

Btw. there is no problem until you hit something as a SV-file size of 12MB. After that the data just is not stored anymore.

Post by **Rollie** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:40 pm

Well, I know the 12MB is not a hard and fast rule as I've seen people upload 20MB files here before =x

Nemelis · Post by **Nemelis** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:46 pm

Isn't it? No it is not... It is the number of variables (I believe) that has a limit in Lua (Need to reread the issues about it on Norganna's forums to see what the exact cause of the limit-problem with Lua is, I see).
Anyhow for Auctioneer it hits that border at about 12MB files.

I thought that the purge/prune rule you introduced was for the same issue. But if it is not, forgot I mentioned it (ok put it to the back of your head, incase you somehow hit that border I was talking about

)