I am running RHEL5.2, but am not having anywhere near the latency you are.<div><br></div><div>The only apparent difference between our output is that I am on Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2. I am also going over a gigabit network, but my DNS resolution time never crawls above the microseconds all that much. Your OP states that sometimes it takes up to 20 seconds to get resolution, and I'm wondering if that isn't where you need to concentrate your efforts?</div>
<div><br></div><div>As much as I hate to suggest such a thing because of other potential bugs, could you gain any benefit from having nscd running on the Xymon host only?</div><div><br clear="all">---<br>Jerald M. Sheets jr.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:09 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thorsten.erdmann@daimler.com">thorsten.erdmann@daimler.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hello again</font><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Is there really no other option to speed
up the ping test, maybe by using multiple instance of fping/hobbitping.
A collegue has the same issue on a Hobbitserver running on HPUX.</font><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I am running Redhat EL.</font><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Thorsten Erdmann<br></font><br><br><tt><font size="2"><a href="mailto:thorsten.erdmann@daimler.com" target="_blank">thorsten.erdmann@daimler.com</a> schrieb am 18.06.2010
14:06:43:<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br>> <br>> Hi<br>> <br>> > On Monday, 14 June 2010 19:12:33 White, Bruce wrote:<br>> > > My experience with "hobbitping", is that it is
just slower. You are<br>> > > better off downloading and installing "fping".
Once you do this, you<br>> > > will need to rebuild hobbit and select fping in the build
process. <br>> > <br>> > Instead of rebuilding hobbit, you can change FPING in hobbitserver.cfg
to <br>> > "/path/to/fping -Ae " or similar.<br>> <br>> sorry for the delay. I just tried fping. But the turnaround time is
<br>> exactly the same, no benefit. Any other ideas?<br>> <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 : 287<br>> # succesful :
287<br>> # failed :
0<br>> # calls to dnsresolve : 289<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>> TIME SPENT<br>> Event
Starttime Duration<br>> bbtest-net startup
1276862496.735994
-<br>> Service definitions loaded
1276862496.738353 0.002359 <br>> Tests loaded
1276862496.780920
0.042567 <br>> DNS lookups completed
1276862511.817886 15.036966
<br>> Test engine setup completed
1276862511.823173 0.005287 <br>> TCP tests completed
1276862511.825895
0.002722 <br>> PING test completed (814 hosts) 1276862553.583528
41.757633 <br>> PING test results sent
1276862553.718441 0.134913
<br>> Test result collection completed 1276862553.718452
0.000011 <br>> LDAP test engine setup completed 1276862553.718454
0.000002 <br>> LDAP tests executed
1276862553.718455
0.000001 <br>> LDAP tests result collection completed 1276862553.718456
0.000001 <br>> NSLOOKUP tests executed
1276862554.634700 0.916244
<br>> Test results transmitted
1276862554.700414 0.065714
<br>> bbtest-net completed
1276862554.702291 0.001877
<br>> TIME TOTAL
57.966297
<br>> <br>> <br>> Thorsten Erdmann<br>> <br>> <a href="mailto:bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net" target="_blank">bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net</a> schrieb am 15.06.2010 12:32:39:<br>> <br>> > <br>> > Regards,<br>
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