In an image host script, how can I measure an image's bandwidth consumption?

I'm enhancing a PHP image hosting script, but I'm facing a problem: the client has requested a function to limit the amount of used bandwidth, for each image, to 100MB / 开发者_Go百科day This includes thumbnails

Up to now, thumbnails have been served directly without using PHP (with nginx) I've tried using a php script instead of a direct .jpg, with a VERY heavily cached code (using APC's cache to store the amount of bandwidth used, and serving the image with the X-Sendfile header), but the server just chokes due to the very,very high amount of connections

Is there a more efficient way to measure bandwidth used by thumbnails without choking the CPU and RAM? How is this problem usually tackled?

Thanks

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Parse the server access logs. I believe in nginx they are at /var/log/nginx/access.log . You'll likely need to change permissions to allow access, or you could use cron to regularly copy that file into an accessible folder if you aren't comfortable doing that.

I guess that if you cached results, and only checked once an hour or something then you could do this using grep -c.

I'd be interested to know, if you pick a file you know has been accessed, how long does it take to run:

grep -c filename.jpg /var/log/nginx.access.log

You could then simply multiply that count by the filesize to get the bandwidth for that image.