Re: [Summary-Talk] "Gaps in service" report]

[LynuxWorks Webmaster <webmaster@xxxxxxxx>]

Jason, Thanks for that tip on the non-existant 10-hour gaps that appear 
several times a day in our reports.

We're just using one log file per day.  But I looked closer, and it 
turns out that some of the entries occasionally get recorded in our log 
file ever-so-slightly out of order--by one second.  In other words, one 
log entry at 08:28, the next at 08:27, then the next at 08:28.  I'll 
have to try to find out why this is happening.

But I can definitely see how this would mess things up for Summary if 
it's expecting sequential data!

Kevin




> LynuxWorks Webmaster wrote:
> 
>>
>> I'm getting strange displays like below, suggesting that I have 
>> 10-hour gaps in service that are supposedly only a minutes apart from 
>> each other..
> 
> 
> If you have several different log files that each cover the same time
> period you would see exactly what you describe. The full Gaps in Service
> report will show the log file name, if they are all different that would
> explain it.
> 
> If they are all in the same log file then something more complicated
> happened. Perhaps the server clock was jumping around by ten hours, so
> that log entries for now and ten hours from now alternated in the log
> file, or something along those lines. This can happen if you have
> extremely large downloads that take ten hours for some people to
> download (rare, but possible), then the log entries would be out of
> order in the log file.
> 
> Jason
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