mmiklavc commented on a change in pull request #1197: METRON-1778 Out-of-order 
timestamps may delay flush in Storm Profiler
URL: https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/1197#discussion_r258562749
 
 

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 File path: 
metron-analytics/metron-profiler-storm/src/main/java/org/apache/metron/profiler/storm/FixedFrequencyFlushSignal.java
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 @@ -74,31 +72,34 @@ public void reset() {
    */
   @Override
   public void update(long timestamp) {
+    if(LOG.isWarnEnabled()) {
+      checkIfOutOfOrder(timestamp);
+    }
 
-    if(timestamp > currentTime) {
-
-      // need to update current time
-      LOG.debug("Updating current time; last={}, new={}", currentTime, 
timestamp);
-      currentTime = timestamp;
-
-    } else if ((currentTime - timestamp) > flushFrequency) {
-
-      // significantly out-of-order timestamps
-      LOG.warn("Timestamps out-of-order by '{}' ms. This may indicate a 
problem in the data. last={}, current={}",
-              (currentTime - timestamp),
-              timestamp,
-              currentTime);
+    if(timestamp < minTime) {
+      minTime = timestamp;
     }
 
-    if(flushTime == 0) {
+    if(timestamp > maxTime) {
+      maxTime = timestamp;
+    }
+  }
 
-      // set the next time to flush
-      flushTime = currentTime + flushFrequency;
-      LOG.debug("Setting flush time; '{}' ms until flush; flushTime={}, 
currentTime={}, flushFreq={}",
-              timeToNextFlush(),
-              flushTime,
-              currentTime,
-              flushFrequency);
+  /**
+   * Checks if the timestamp is significantly out-of-order.
+   *
+   * @param timestamp The last timestamp.
+   */
+  private void checkIfOutOfOrder(long timestamp) {
+    // do not warn if this is the first timestamp we've seen, which will 
always be 'out-of-order'
+    if (maxTime > Long.MIN_VALUE) {
+
+      long outOfOrderBy = maxTime - timestamp;
+      if (Math.abs(outOfOrderBy) > flushFrequency) {
 
 Review comment:
   Any specific rationale for landing on this formula?

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