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Re: [hobbit] Hobbit Sensitivity lowered?
- To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
- Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit Sensitivity lowered?
- From: henrik (at) hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner)
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:39:37 +0100
- References: <43EA285E.3070602@supranet.net>
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:20:30AM -0600, Chris Wopat wrote:
>
> I switched from BB to hobbit about a month ago and have been generally
> happy. One thing that's "different" is that Hobbit seems to be more
> sensitive to services timing out, such as during an http check.
The default timeout for network tests in Hobbit is 10 seconds. You can
change it via the --timeout=N option (N is in seconds) for bbtest-net
in hobbitlaunch.cfg. See the bbtest-net(1) man-page...
BB uses a fixed 20 second timeout.
> I don't see anything in bb-services related to this, is there any global
> setting somwhere to permit me to allow a check to take a few more ms to
> respond before it's considered "red"?
Millisecs shouldn't make any difference. It's a global setting - not in
the bb-services file per service - because all of the network tests
really run in parallel. Having individual timeouts is just
un-manageable.
> My bb2.html file is frequently red
> due to this, although it only lasts a few seconds.
How many tests do you run ? (See the status in the "bbnet" column for
your Hobbit server). It's a well-known problem that Hobbit can actually
flood some networks/firewalls with connection setups, resulting in
some tests showing up as failed one moment, and OK a few seconds after.
You might want to lower the number of concurrent tests that bbtest-net
runs via the --concurrency=N option - the default is 256.
> Is there an appropriate way to do this without hacking code and finding
> the timeout period?
Read The Fine Manual :-) You'll find them on your Hobbit server webpages,
in the "Help"->"Hobbit man-pages" section.
Regards,
Henrik