[analog-help] analog binary being run twice by anlgform.pl?

[Kevin Murphy]

Aengus wrote:
> Kevin Murphy <murphy at genome.chop.edu> wrote:
>   
>>  In that case, the second apparent binary run
>> of analog did not run with FROM or TO set at all, which caused a
>> horribly slow scan of all log files.
>>     
>
> I don't have any suggestions as to why Analog is running twice for you, 
> but I don't think it's an Analog problem 

Yes, I didn't think so.  I just hoped it might ring a bell with somebody.
> have you looked at the Access log to see if there is one or 2 
> requests to analog.pl?
>   
Yeah, there's just a single POST request showing in the log file.

> But I did want to point out that having FROM and TO set won't 
> necessarily speed up Analog, as it will still have to read all specified 
> log files to find entries that fall between your FROM and TO.
>   
Actually, I wrote a Perl module to dynamically create the minimal set of 
LOGFILE statements based on the FROM and TO values (my Apache logs are 
named chronologically, cut by month or day).  The module understands 
Analog FROM and TO syntax and populates a LOGFILE template to generate 
the actual LOGFILE names.  I've tested it, and it does speed up Analog 
quite a bit, as long as I can beat this double invocation problem.

When I run analog manually on the command line with the same variables 
passed in my CGI test (with +gtest_var_settings.cfg), I can see only one 
run of analog, not surprisingly.  I was wondering initially if analog 
was recursively invoking itself for some strange reason.

I will reexamine the Apache httpd.conf file to see if there's any funny 
business going on.

-Kevin Murphy