Today Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: Ralf,
:-) it seems you are building up the motivation to write some patches here :-) btw, the forks 5 line tells you that the system will fork off 5 instances ... this is governed by the baseforks.pm module ... cheers tobi > * Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > now... It's really hard to tell WHAT takes so long. > > (I keep playing the self-entertainer here, but it's OK) > > I ran "time /usr/sbin/smokeping --debug" and got this: > > .. alert compilation ... > Launched successfully > EchoPingHttp: probing 5 targets > FPing: probing 36 targets > EchoPingSmtp: probing 0 targets > DNS: probing 4 targets > EchoPingHttp: forks 5, rounds 1, timeout 90 > EchoPingHttp: executing cmd /usr/bin/echoping -h http://141.42.111.26/magic/ > -n 20 magic.charite.de > EchoPingHttp: executing cmd /usr/bin/echoping -h / -n 20 rzdoku.charite.de > EchoPingHttp: executing cmd /usr/bin/echoping -h / -n 20 kruemel.charite.de > EchoPingHttp: executing cmd /usr/bin/echoping -h > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=idecuhmlib -n 20 > realproxy.charite.de:888 > EchoPingHttp: executing cmd /usr/bin/echoping -h / -n 20 > ab7-intranet.charite.de > > (lots of output, all probes work OK, no timeouts) > > real 1m10.085s > user 0m11.200s > sys 0m2.640s > > Why on earth 70s? Why aren't The DNS, EchoPingHttp, adn FPing probes > done in parallel? Is this a feature of the --debug mode? > > Also, in the debug mode the FPing probes are not printed out. Why? > > -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker @ ISG.EE, ETZ J97, ETH, CH-8092 Zurich / // _ \/ _ \/ / System Manager, Time Lord, Coder, Designer, Coach /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker +41(0)1-632-5286 -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/smokeping-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
