Re: [Banshee-List] unable to send usage data

[Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Frank <funtastix googlemail com> wrote:
> Is there any access to the data? I'd love to see some statistics like
> the ones Gabriel put out ages ago. AFAIK there is no data about which
> extensions are used by the users, right?

We currently don't offer access to the raw data, mostly for privacy
reasons I guess. The size itself might also be an issue : my previous
figure was wrong : we now have more than 70 million datapoints...

I don't think we specifically collect data about extension usage.
Collecting at least which ones are enabled should be feasible.
But we collect data about all sources, so we have some data if the
extension creates a source, like LiveRadio ;)

Since Gabriel did his first analysis, the storage system for the data
has changed, so the tool he wrote doesn't work anymore.
I spent some time working on the data a month ago, writing carefully
handcrafted SQL queries, then got distracted :)

A few tidbits from what I got at the time :
During January 2011, we had more 6700 unique users who submitted usage
data, 83% of those were using version 1.8.0. And someone had more than
130000 tracks in his music library. ;)

I hope I'll be able to get back to digging through the data after the
2.0 release, and maybe extract some interesting information.

--
Bertrand


> On 22 March 2011 16:09, Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Sebastian Krämer <mail kraymer de> wrote:
>>> Hi there!
>>>
>>> Just to let you know that the server/folder that banshee tries to upload
>>> the usage data to is full (or otherwise not accepting upload).
>>>
>>> I only saw that  when I started banshee in the console. Although it's
>>> not an error a user has to care about you should consider changing
>>> banshee's behaviour here. I fear many clients are trying to upload
>>> without anyone noticing.. Is there too much generated and uploaded data?
>>
>> Thanks for the heads up !
>> The server was indeed low on disk space. I cleared some old backups,
>> so it should be better now.
>>
>> Although we've already reduced the rate at which it is submitted, the
>> usage stats do generate a significant amount of data. I think we're
>> well into the 10 millions line in the main database table. But that's
>> not the only thing eating disk space on the server, which is also
>> hosting the website, tarballs, OSX and Windows binaries, etc.
>>
>> --
>> Bertrand Lorentz