swift-object-auditor does not report stats because of log_time

[Christopher Bartz]

The default log_time configuration of the object-auditor equals 1 hour (http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/deployment_guide.html#object-server-configuration). If the whole run of the object-auditor takes fewer than this, no statistics are reported at all (see https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/swift/obj/auditor.py , the function audit_all_objects).

Due to this issue we have seen no statistics when using the command swift-recon --auditor .

It would be good if one of the following improvements would be applied:

- this issue would be documented
- the term log_time would be described better (I first thought of the output of the logger, and not of the reporting of the stats)
- the code would be changed, so that the object.recon cache will be updated before the function quits

Best regards,

C. Bartz

[Christian Schwede (cschwede)]

There is already a fix available for this: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/99900/