[hobbit] Is there a limit on the number of hosts that can polled?

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Sun Jan 18 02:39:04 CET 2009


You're definitely not at Hobbit's maximum as this user has twice the number
of hosts!

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_hobbit_Users_list#Steria

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On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Brian Catlin <bcatlin at gmail.com> wrote:

>    As nobody took a shot at this,   While you are ok on memory and CPU -
> have you looked at your other resources?  With that many hosts reporting
> back to a master - I would suspect I/O flooding off your interface...
>
> Just a thought ....
>
> Brian
>
>  lurch at inorbit.com
> *-------Original Message-------*
>
>  *From:* Smith, Jonathan <jon.d.smith at twcable.com>
> *Date:* 1/15/2009 10:19:33 AM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* [hobbit] Is there a limit on the number of hosts that can
> polled?
>
>
> Once I start to get around 2700 hosts hobbit stops updating. Is there a
> cause for this in hobbit (memory or host limit)? Top shows my system with
> very little utilization of memory or cpu and all hosts go purple for no
> updates.  I can get hobbit updating again by commenting out hosts and
> restarting it but I still have roughly another fifteen hundred hosts to
> enter.
> I have been adding the hosts in slowly in groups of less than two hundred
> which seems to work better as I was seeing everything go purple at under two
> thousand hosts before.
>
>
> Jon Smith
> Network Support Technician
> Time Warner Cable
>
>
>
>
> bbtest-net version 4.2.0
> Statistics:
> Hosts total           :     2672
> Hosts with no tests   :       19
> Total test count      :     2656
> Status messages       :     2657
> Alert status msgs     :        0
> Transmissions         :       28
>
> TCP test statistics:
> # TCP tests total     :        3
> # HTTP tests          :        1
> # Simple TCP tests    :        2
> # Connection attempts :        3
> # bytes written       :      137
> # bytes read          :      374
>
> TIME SPENT
> Event                                            Starttime
> Duration
> bbtest-net startup                       1232031572.798610
> -
> Service definitions loaded               1232031572.804664
> 0.006054
> Tests loaded                             1232031606.460960
> 33.656296
> DNS lookups completed                    1232031606.547165
> 0.086205
> Test engine setup completed              1232031606.571986
> 0.024821
> TCP tests completed                      1232031606.575635
> 0.003649
> PING test completed (2653 hosts)         1232031711.407204
> 104.831569
> PING test results sent                   1232031711.435915
> 0.028711
> Test result collection completed         1232031711.435934
> 0.000019
> LDAP test engine setup completed         1232031711.435940
> 0.000006
> LDAP tests executed                      1232031711.435947
> 0.000007
> LDAP tests result collection completed   1232031711.435953
> 0.000006
> Test results transmitted                 1232031711.575185
> 0.139232
> bbtest-net completed                     1232031711.578223
> 0.003038
> TIME TOTAL
> 138.779613
>
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