On 1/18/06, Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > 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. Otherwise, > there is no "solution" that doesn't involve recompiling.
Actually, another alternative would be to use a piped-logger, and have this program write out the current time, overwriting anything written by apache. 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]
