Anne,
Please do not lay off after a certain hour, or number
of adult beverages. Everybody makes mistakes. Your mistake
was minor. More important you answered his question. Thanks.
David
> All,
>
> My sincere apologies for propagating misinformation. Next time I'll lay off
> responding past a certain hour in the evening.
>
> Anne
>
> >
> > >Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 20:48:03 -0600
> > >From: anne <anne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> > >To: Robert Mullenax <rrm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Subject: Re: FSL2 feed?
> >
> > The above message contained the following:
> >
> > > ... However, there's another issue wrt ".*" -
> > > contrary to what one might think, it has been found to be extremely
> > > inefficient and costly. So, from that perspective, I would advise
> > > using the expression above instead.
> >
> > Just to clarify Anne's message, the regular-expression ".*", BY ITSELF,
> > is quite efficient. So a request-line like
> >
> > request FSL2 .* host.domain
> >
> > is quite all right. The problem occurs when ".*" is used as a PREFIX to
> > a more complex regular-expression. So a request-line like
> >
> > request FSL2 ".*FSL\.NetCDF\.NOAAnet\.windprofiler\." host.domain
> >
> > is SEVERAL HUNDRED TIMES LESS EFFICIENT than the request-line
> >
> > request FSL2 "^FSL\.NetCDF\.NOAAnet\.windprofiler\." host.domain
> >
> > Robert, just a thought, do you need to adjust the regular-expressions in
> > your pqact(1) configuration-file?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Steve Emmerson
>
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