[hobbit] Differences between bb and hobbit -

Sloan joe at tmsusa.com
Wed Nov 7 00:03:54 CET 2007


Excellent, that will do it.

Joe

Larry Barber wrote:
> Look up "badhttp" in the bb-hosts man pages.
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
>
> On 11/5/07, *Sloan* <joe at tmsusa.com <mailto:joe at tmsusa.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello list,
>
>     I've gotten a pair of hobbit servers set up, one in each data
>     center, in
>     a specific lan.
>
>     I'm noticing that, due to the many transient network glitches in wan
>     connectivity, that the hobbit history shows a lot of
>     red/green/red/green. This appears to be different behavior from bb,
>     which gives us some knobs to turn, mitigating the effects of the
>     transient glitches and preventing the alternating red/green
>     connectivity
>     status. (We've got people watching bbdisplay pages, who panic when
>     they
>     see red.)
>
>     If a bb-net test fails, bb waits "n" seconds and tries again, and
>     if it
>     still fails, it waits "m" seconds and tries a third time, and if that
>     fails as well, the connectivity goes red. The delays between try 1
>     and
>     try 2, and the delay between try 2 and try 3, are configurable in bb,
>     but I don't see any such option in hobbit, nor is it obvious whether
>     there is more than 1 attempt made to perform a network test.
>
>     Can anyone confirm or deny that this is the case, and if not, point me
>     to the correct configuration option?
>
>     Thanks & Regards,
>
>     Joe
>
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