diff --git a/logparser_multiprocess.py b/logparser_multiprocess.py
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+import apachelogs, gzip, os, sqlite3
+import multiprocessing, time
+
+
+parser = apachelogs.LogParser(apachelogs.COMBINED)
+
+#entry = parser.parse('207.237.221.51 - - [22/Jan/2021:00:14:58 +0100] "GET /feeds/all.rss.xml HTTP/2.0" 304 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:84.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/84.0"')
+
+def create_db():
+    db_name = 'traffic_stats2.db'
+    if not os.path.exists(db_name):
+        conn = sqlite3.connect(db_name)
+        c = conn.cursor()
+        c.execute("""CREATE TABLE traffic
+                    (datetimes timestamp,
+                     bytes integer);""")
+        conn.commit()
+        c.close()
+
+def populate_db(pairlist):
+    #timeout is so we can avoid database locks 
+    #if multiple processes try to write to it shortly after another
+    conn = sqlite3.connect('traffic_stats2.db', timeout=30)
+    c = conn.cursor()
+    c.execute('''PRAGMA synchronous = OFF''')
+    c.execute('''PRAGMA journal_mode = OFF''')
+    sqliteparam = """ INSERT INTO 'traffic'
+    ('datetimes', 'bytes') VALUES
+    (?,?);"""
+    
+    c.executemany(sqliteparam, pairlist)
+    conn.commit()
+    c.close()
+                    
+
+def parse_log(gzip_file):
+    pairs = []
+
+    try:
+        logfile = gzip.open(gzip_file, 'r')
+        log = logfile.readlines()
+        for line in log:
+            if line:
+                line = line.decode('ascii').strip().strip('\x00') #hacky way to remove null bytes? https://stackoverflow.com/a/56904541
+                try:
+                    entry = parser.parse(str(line))
+                    pairs.append((entry.request_time, entry.bytes_sent))
+                except Exception as e:
+                    # print(e)
+                    # this catches malformed entries but that is less than 0.1% of total set
+                    pass
+        populate_db(pairs)
+        print(gzip_file,'\n')
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(e,g)
+
+files_to_process = []
+
+for g in os.listdir('/home/r/Programming/ltm-2020-stats/traffic/solar_logs'):
+    if os.path.isfile(g):
+        if g.endswith('.gzip'):
+            if g:
+                if not g.startswith('2019'):
+                    if not g.startswith('2021'):
+                        files_to_process.append(g)
+
+files_to_process.sort()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    starttime = time.time()
+    create_db()
+
+    manager = multiprocessing.Manager()
+    pool = multiprocessing.Pool()
+    pool.map(parse_log, files_to_process)
+    pool.close()
+    print()
+    print('saving data')
+    print('Time taken = {} seconds'.format(time.time() - starttime))
+    
+
+