On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Satoshi Ikarashi wrote:
>
> I agree with you if there is no "TO" command in the
> configuration file.
>
> When I specify "TO" in a config file (or an argument), I assume
> all requests are recorded in the logfile. If no request is
> recorded in the logfile, there was no request. This is a
> different assumption. In this case, I (maybe not only I) want to
> get an average as "#_of_request/time_period". Or "rate * unit"
> (=((4-1)/12) * 24) = 6 requests per day) with the same logic you
> explained to me.
>
> Do you not think so?
>
No, because there's still no guarantee that the logfile goes past the TO.
Here's a silly example. We had some bad entries in our logfile, with dates
from the year 2030. So I used a TO command for the year 2010, or something.
I wouldn't have wanted my requests to have been averaged over 15 years!
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