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

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Seeing log entries out of sequence by small amounts, a few seconds or
even a minute, in a log file is completely normal. Most web servers
write the log entry to the log when the request is complete, but time
stamp it at the time the request was made. Because different requests
transfer different amounts of data at different rates, and so complete
at different times, some reordering of the log entries is normal.

Summary can cope with log entries that are up to one hour out of order.
If the log entries are out of order by more than an hour you are likely
to get gaps reported. This would normally only happen if you had a
really large download, something on the order of 20 Meg, or larger.

Jason


LynuxWorks Webmaster wrote:
> 
> 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.

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