> Is there something else  which is making this difficult to do?

Not really, but hsearch() & Co. are not available under Windows, so I have to extract the
source code from the GNU C libarary or so. Since the last discussion I had lots of other
topics on my to-do list, such as mirroring and cloning, but the speed issue is getting more
and more up on the priority list.

> > I noticed that the gcc compiler options in the tarball Makefile were not
> > conducive to speed.  There, I tried changing the gcc options to:
> > 
> > CFLAGS = -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall
> 
> Thank your for this hint, I changed my Makefile for the production code. However, I
> could not feel any difference between the two options. The real problem is the
> function getcfg(), which gets called many thousand times internally and has to parse
> elogd.cfg each time. Once I implement a hash table for that function, elogd should
> become faster by at least a factor of two.

Yeah - What's up with that?

I have seen this discussed before - Seems like it should be a priority to get this
fixed, as doing a hash table is straightforward, and the speed increase should be pretty
health - there are several c libraries available - check out "man 3 hsearch" for the
POSIX hash table management that already available.  Other c library searches that you
could use include bsearch (binary tree), tsearch (tree searching), btree (b+ tree). 
However, the easiest and most obvious one to use for elog appears to be a simple hash
table search (hsearch).

Is there something else  which is making this difficult to do?

> according to the users guide,
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Database/?cmd=New&pType=PC
> 
> should create an entry with the type value set to PC, but this doesn't work

Thanks!

> according to the users guide,
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Database/?cmd=New&pType=PC
> 
> should create an entry with the type value set to PC, but this doesn't work

Now it works. Updated elog version under CVS and as a snapshot (see Download Page)

according to the users guide,

http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Database/?cmd=New&pType=PC

should create an entry with the type value set to PC, but this doesn't work

> > With the "Preset text = " specified, when re-editing a logbook entry (say to
> > correct a spelling error) the text of the "Message" is replicated and placed
> > directly below the original text.
> 
> That should be fixed since revision 1.370 from Jul 7th, 2004. Please update.

Thanks!

> > I get the following in my THREADED logbook view:
> > 
> > "Adding new services, planned for 1090519200. Last revised: Thu Jul 15
> > 18:03:52 2004"
> 
> That should be fixed by the current version. Please update.

Thanks!

> > I just updated ELOG using the latest elogd.c, and now my Quick Filters seem 
> > to stop working after the first or second filter attempt.
> 
> Can you try if you can reproduce the problem with the current version? I tried
> your settings and could not reproduce it. I remember that I fixed some problems
> with quick filters, but that was some time ago (Apr 04). If the problem
> persists, can you send me your exact elogd.cfg?

Recai Oktas replied to me and let me know that I needed to use dpkg to create the 
new Debian package instead of manually compiling it. I reverted to the original 
Debian package to get everything running normally again, but I haven't had a 
chance to try the upgrade again. As soon as I went back to the original elogd 
everything worked fine (no changes to the elog.cfg required). I'm assuming that 
the problem came from attempting to recompile a Debian package install manually. 
Sorry for the bug scare!

Todd