[Opendnssec-user] Meaning of the STATS output line

[Sebastian Castro]

Hi:

In our testing environment we have been checking and gathering the
statistics printed by the signer to keep an eye on the system. We've
found a few strange things for what haven't found an answer:

- Entries with 'RR[count=0 ...] ' for a non-empty zone. Those seem to
occur when the signer reads the zone file to refresh signatures. When
the zone is "fresh", the count is correct.
- Should the sum of <N>+<U> extracted from RRSIG[new=<N> reused=<U> ..]
match the total number of signatures in the zone <T>? We've found some
strange cases where the numbers don't match, in particular <N>+<U> < <T>
- Is there a particular reason why the time and rates are precise to the
second? In the original patch to add some of that functionality (ref
http://trac.opendnssec.org/ticket/20) I was using a time precision to
the millisecond. In a production environment I think is useful to have
higher precision.

Finally, would be nice to have some documentation about what each stat
means :)

Regards,
-- 
Sebastian Castro
DNS Specialist
.nz Registry Services (New Zealand Domain Name Registry Limited)
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