<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">for some time I am having problems with
out ping test of hobbit. It runs longer that the time intervall. Is it
possible to speed up the test? I don't want to make the intervall longer.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I am using the hobbitping. I tried doubling
--max_pps from 50 to 100 with no effect. </font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Most of the time the DNS-lookup eats
up 20 seconds, but sometimes it is near zero! Why that? Most of my monitored
system have a testip tag, so should not do any DNS lookup at all. But some
WLAN accesspoints which are configured for using DHCP does not have the
testip tag.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">In the manpage of hobbitping I read
something about a runtime of 18 seconds for 1000 clients. Why it is so
slow on my machine? It's a fast machine, Opteron with 1GBit network interface.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Here ist the output of bbtest:</font><br><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">bbtest-net version 4.2.0</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19
2003</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20213</font><br><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Statistics:</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Hosts total
: 834</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Hosts with no tests :
20</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Total test count
: 819</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Status messages
: 820</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Alert status msgs
: 0</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Transmissions
: 10</font><br><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">DNS statistics:</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> # hostnames resolved :
288</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> # succesful
: 288</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> # failed
: 0</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> # calls to dnsresolve :
290</font><br><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">TCP test statistics:</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> # TCP tests total
: 3</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> # HTTP tests
: 2</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> # Simple TCP tests :
1</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> # Connection attempts :
3</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> # bytes written
: 261</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> # bytes read
: 1467</font><br><br><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Error output:</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">WARNING: Runtime 68 longer than time
limit (60)</font><br><br><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">TIME SPENT</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Event
Starttime
Duration</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">bbtest-net startup
1276505088.377616
-</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Service definitions loaded
1276505088.380818
0.003202 </font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Tests loaded
1276505088.417419
0.036601 </font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">DNS lookups completed
1276505108.462455
20.045036 <<<----</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Test engine setup completed
1276505108.479249
0.016794 </font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">TCP tests completed
1276505108.482081
0.002832 </font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">PING test completed (814 hosts)
1276505156.193513
47.711432 <<<----</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">PING test results sent
1276505156.334798
0.141285 </font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Test result collection completed
1276505156.334808 0.000010
</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">LDAP test engine setup completed
1276505156.334809 0.000001
</font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">LDAP tests executed
1276505156.334819
0.000010 </font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">LDAP tests result collection completed
1276505156.334820 0.000001 </font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">NSLOOKUP tests executed
1276505156.339081
0.004261 </font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Test results transmitted
1276505156.473376
0.134295 </font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">bbtest-net completed
1276505156.475145
0.001769 </font><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">TIME TOTAL
68.097529 </font><br><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thorsten Erdmann<br></font><font face="sans-serif"><font face="sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica" size="-1" color="#808080"><br>If you are not the intended addressee, please inform us immediately that you have received this e-mail in error, and delete it. We thank you for your cooperation.
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