[hobbit] Differences between bb and hobbit -

[Larry Barber]

Look up "badhttp" in the bb-hosts man pages.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 11/5/07, Sloan <joe at tmsusa.com> wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> I've gotten a pair of hobbit servers set up, one in each data center, in
> a specific lan.
>
> I'm noticing that, due to the many transient network glitches in wan
> connectivity, that the hobbit history shows a lot of
> red/green/red/green. This appears to be different behavior from bb,
> which gives us some knobs to turn, mitigating the effects of the
> transient glitches and preventing the alternating red/green connectivity
> status. (We've got people watching bbdisplay pages, who panic when they
> see red.)
>
> If a bb-net test fails, bb waits "n" seconds and tries again, and if it
> still fails, it waits "m" seconds and tries a third time, and if that
> fails as well, the connectivity goes red. The delays between try 1 and
> try 2, and the delay between try 2 and try 3, are configurable in bb,
> but I don't see any such option in hobbit, nor is it obvious whether
> there is more than 1 attempt made to perform a network test.
>
> Can anyone confirm or deny that this is the case, and if not, point me
> to the correct configuration option?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Joe
>
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