[lttng-dev] Quick question about discarded events

[Thibault, Daniel]

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 14:32:02 +0100
From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?David_Lindstr=F6m?="
	<david.lindstrom at percepio.se>

> If I encounter a trace where a packet contains the events_discarded field 
> with a non-zero value, I want to warn/notify the user. Were the events 
> discarded before the timestamp_begin of the packet, after timestamp_end or 
> in between? I basically want to plot some symbol on my timeline 
> approximately where the user can expect bad/missing data.
>
> Mvh
> David Lindstr?m 

   I do believe the events were lost in between the begin and end packet timestamps.

Daniel U. Thibault
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