Bruce's answer was 100% pertinent to the question asked, and in my experience the proper answer. <div><br></div><div>Hobbitping is not everything it could be, and it's much better from the get-go to use fping. Whether you like the answer or not doesn't make it any less an answer.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br clear="all">---<br>Jerald M. Sheets jr.<br><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Ryan Novosielski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:novosirj@umdnj.edu">novosirj@umdnj.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<a href="mailto:thorsten.erdmann@daimler.com">thorsten.erdmann@daimler.com</a> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi<br>
><br>
> for some time I am having problems with out ping test of hobbit. It runs<br>
> longer that the time intervall. Is it possible to speed up the test? I<br>
> don't want to make the intervall longer.<br>
> I am using the hobbitping. I tried doubling --max_pps from 50 to 100<br>
> with no effect.<br>
><br>
> Most of the time the DNS-lookup eats up 20 seconds, but sometimes it is<br>
> near zero! Why that? Most of my monitored system have a testip tag, so<br>
> should not do any DNS lookup at all. But some WLAN accesspoints which<br>
> are configured for using DHCP does not have the testip tag.<br>
><br>
> In the manpage of hobbitping I read something about a runtime of 18<br>
> seconds for 1000 clients. Why it is so slow on my machine? It's a fast<br>
> machine, Opteron with 1GBit network interface.<br>
><br>
> Here ist the output of bbtest:<br>
><br>
> bbtest-net version 4.2.0<br>
> SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003<br>
> LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20213<br>
><br>
> Statistics:<br>
> Hosts total : 834<br>
> Hosts with no tests : 20<br>
> Total test count : 819<br>
> Status messages : 820<br>
> Alert status msgs : 0<br>
> Transmissions : 10<br>
><br>
> DNS statistics:<br>
> # hostnames resolved : 288<br>
> # succesful : 288<br>
> # failed : 0<br>
> # calls to dnsresolve : 290<br>
><br>
> TCP test statistics:<br>
> # TCP tests total : 3<br>
> # HTTP tests : 2<br>
> # Simple TCP tests : 1<br>
> # Connection attempts : 3<br>
> # bytes written : 261<br>
> # bytes read : 1467<br>
><br>
><br>
> Error output:<br>
> WARNING: Runtime 68 longer than time limit (60)<br>
><br>
><br>
> TIME SPENT<br>
> Event Starttime Duration<br>
> bbtest-net startup 1276505088.377616 -<br>
> Service definitions loaded 1276505088.380818<br>
> 0.003202<br>
> Tests loaded 1276505088.417419<br>
> 0.036601<br>
> DNS lookups completed 1276505108.462455<br>
> 20.045036 <<<----<br>
> Test engine setup completed 1276505108.479249<br>
> 0.016794<br>
> TCP tests completed 1276505108.482081<br>
> 0.002832<br>
> PING test completed (814 hosts) 1276505156.193513<br>
> 47.711432 <<<----<br>
> PING test results sent 1276505156.334798<br>
> 0.141285<br>
> Test result collection completed 1276505156.334808<br>
> 0.000010<br>
> LDAP test engine setup completed 1276505156.334809<br>
> 0.000001<br>
> LDAP tests executed 1276505156.334819<br>
> 0.000010<br>
> LDAP tests result collection completed 1276505156.334820<br>
> 0.000001<br>
> NSLOOKUP tests executed 1276505156.339081<br>
> 0.004261<br>
> Test results transmitted 1276505156.473376<br>
> 0.134295<br>
> bbtest-net completed 1276505156.475145<br>
> 0.001769<br>
> TIME TOTAL<br>
> 68.097529<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thorsten Erdmann<br>
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