Re: [hobbit] Question on Hobbitping

[Josh Luthman <josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com>]

Fping on every server I've done.  Just works.

On 2/26/09, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 (at) gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Jason Hand <jason (at) hands4christ.org> wrote:
>> I saw a couple of threads on this issue but I'm not clear what the best
>> solution is.  When I run a ping to a given host on the same network I see
>> the response in very small ms response times but Hobbit 4.2 reports that
>> they are from 20ms to 40ms.  Another poster commented:
>>
>> "It looks like the delays are coming from the usleep line in send_ping();
>> this looks like it was put in there to do some network/cpu throttling,
>> which would definitely make the bbtest-net duration longer, but I'm not
>> sure yet why it is affecting the icmp return times.
>>
>> Running hobbitping with the flag "--max-pps=10000000" seems to fix
>> things."
>>
>> My question is -- Where do you add that flag?
>>
>> Also, would it be advantageous to run fping instead of Hobbitping?  How
>> many
>> of you are running fping instead of Hobbitping and why did you choose
>> that?
>
> Use fping. Most of us I think. Same reason why you are going to choose
> it. It is not
> production ready. Something much better is coming with Xymon 4.3 per Henrik.
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>>
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