[hobbit] Please comment my test Hobbit server info

[T.J. Yang]

>From: Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina at wi.rr.com>
>Reply-To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>Subject: Re: [hobbit] Please comment my test Hobbit server info
>Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:26:59 -0500
>
>Some simple math shows that you could probably go to about 4000 hosts 
>comfortably (with a 5 minutes test cycle time).  Of course, there may be 
>other factors to consider when you go that high, so YMMV.
>
>I would also consider the fact that as hobbitping improves those ping times 
>will come down.


I think it is possible to come up with a formula(algorithm) to
predict maximum capacity  by dervinng factors
like ping, cpu load,disk space of a hobbit server.

lets leave it as a hobbit challenge for now.


Thanks for your comment.


tj
>
>T.J. Yang wrote:
>>Currently most of hosts are ping test only.
>>I can put more hosts on this hobbit server.
>>822 hosts is taking 42 seconds.
>>
>>Answer I don't know is how many more hosts it can handle ?
>>
>>How can I find what hosts are causing DNS lookup failures ?
>>
>>Thanks for your time
>>
>>tj
>>
>>Output of bbest.
>>
>>bbtest-net version 4.2.0
>>SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.7b 10 Apr 2003
>>LDAP library: Sun Microsystems Inc. 500
>>
>>Statistics:
>>Hosts total           :      822
>>Hosts with no tests   :        0
>>Total test count      :      841
>>Status messages       :      840
>>Alert status msgs     :        0
>>Transmissions         :       12
>>
>>DNS statistics:
>># hostnames resolved  :      822
>># succesful           :      317
>># failed              :      505
>># calls to dnsresolve :      841
>>
>>TCP test statistics:
>># TCP tests total     :       15
>># HTTP tests          :        4
>># Simple TCP tests    :       11
>># Connection attempts :       15
>># bytes written       :      666
>># bytes read          :    11278
>>
>>
>>TIME SPENT
>>Event                                            Starttime          
>>Duration
>>bbtest-net startup                       1157055015.522208                 
>>-
>>Service definitions loaded               1157055015.529746          
>>0.007538
>>Tests loaded                             1157055025.655732         
>>10.125986
>>DNS lookups completed                    1157055030.723962          
>>5.068230
>>Test engine setup completed              1157055030.733952          
>>0.009990
>>TCP tests completed                      1157055030.995307          
>>0.261355
>>PING test completed (822 hosts)          1157055073.088812         
>>42.093505
>>PING test results sent                   1157055073.104640          
>>0.015828
>>Test result collection completed         1157055073.105058          
>>0.000418
>>LDAP test engine setup completed         1157055073.105060          
>>0.000002
>>LDAP tests executed                      1157055073.105062          
>>0.000002
>>LDAP tests result collection completed   1157055073.105063          
>>0.000001
>>NTP tests executed                       1157055073.363425          
>>0.258362
>>RPC tests executed                       1157055073.411516          
>>0.048091
>>Test results transmitted                 1157055073.484927          
>>0.073411
>>bbtest-net completed                     1157055073.492452          
>>0.007525
>>TIME TOTAL                                                         
>>57.970244
>>
>>
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