Hi, thanks a for your help... but... I still have doubt on the "cleaness" of this behaviur... (see below).
2006/1/18, Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 1/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have problems with throughput calculation from log files in apache2. > > Using "classic" awk scripts the output is messy due to the fact that > > the lines in the log are not sorted with respect to time. > > In fact each line of the logs has the timestamp of when the request > > has been made; this means that different response times urls have > > different orders depending on the response time itself. > > > > - Is this a known bug? (with correspondig fix...) > > - Is there any configuration workaround? (I cannot fix the source > > code and recompile it) > > Apache logs are not sorted by time. That is just a fact, not a bug. Every bug is also a fact ( ;-) ). In my opinion writing not ordered lines is not so nice, instead of logging arrival rate, apache2 tracks the completion rates but with the arrival timestamp instead of the completion timestamp; this is not so clean... > The time is calculated when the request is received but the log line > is written after the response is sent. > You can easily sort them > yourself after-the-fact if you need time-sorted logs. Sorting in reasonable time is not so easy for a "real" http log file (unless you have a cray supercomputing system... ;-) ) > Otherwise, > there is no "solution" that doesn't involve recompiling. > > Joshua. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ TISCALI ADSL Web&Mail Solo con Tiscali Adsl navighi e telefoni senza canone Telecom a partire da 14,95 Euro/mese. Attivala subito! Per te 500 MB inclusi per navigare, inviare e ricevere messaggi e-mail, foto ed mp3. http://abbonati.tiscali.it/adsl/sa/2wam_tc/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
