Re: FSL2 feed?

• To: anne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Anne Wilson)
• Subject: Re: FSL2 feed?
• From: David Knight <knight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:23:57 +0000 (GMT)

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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