> 1. a traffic table is read in, and loaded into a hash table that is
> ordered by company_id, ip_id and port:
>
> $traffic{$ip_rec{$ip}{'company_id'}}{$ip_id}{$port} += $bytes1 + $bytes2;
>
> 2. a foreach loop is run on that resultant list to do the updates to the
> database:
>
> foreach $company_id ( keys %traffic ) {
> foreach $ip_id ( keys %{$traffic{$company_id}} ) {
> foreach $port ( keys %{$traffic{$company_id}{$ip_id}} ) {
>
> and the updates are done based on those 3 values, plus the byte value
> of $traffic{$company_id}{$ip_id}{$port} ...
>
> Now, my first mistake may be that I'm mis-assuming that the hashes will
> be read in a sorted order ... ? If this is the case, though, then sort
> order shouldn't be an issue, as all servers would be sorted the same way
The output of keys(%hash) is NOT ordered! Try:
foreach $company_id ( sort keys %traffic ) {
foreach $ip_id ( sort keys %{$traffic{$company_id}} ) {
foreach $port ( sort keys %{$traffic{$company_id}{$ip_id}} ) {
Matt
