[hobbit] bbtest-net output & poll time

[Schwimmer, Eric E *HS]

> those 1000 IP's were found in less than one millisecond - that would
> be quite a feat if any DNS was involved.

Thanks. I was seeing two conflicting data points and didn't know which to believe.

>> specifically the "Tests Loaded" section.  Does 20 seconds seem
>> reasonable for a bb-hosts file our our size? 
>
> No, it seems a bit much. My main server has about 1500 hosts in it,
> and spends 4 seconds loading that file (actually, it is split into
> about 30 files). If you look at the "bbgen" status, what's the time
> reported for the "Load bbhosts done" line ?

>From bbgen:
Load bbhosts done                        1112648694.989501          0.178303 

I'll try and fiddle with the format of our bb-hosts file and see if I can get anything to float to the surface.

> Any particular reason you want to get below 60 seconds ? Are you aware
> that Hobbit has a "re-test" script that performs more frequent tests
> on hosts that go down ? When a network test begins to fail, Hobbit
> puts that host on "frequent-test" list meaning that for up to 30
> minutes that host will be tested once a minute rather than once every
> 5 minutes; so recoveries should be picked up faster.

We'll, the opinion from "on high" here is that the sooner we know something is having problems, the sooner we can fix it.  Thats the main reason.  I guess the second reason would be bragging rights ;)

Thanks!
-Eric