On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 11:52:39AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote: > I have noticed problems with using smokeping to monitor large numbers of > hosts, where fping would not wait long enough for replies to come back > from the slowest servers. This probably depends on the order in which > they are pinged. You could try modifying smokeping/lib/probes/FPing.pm, > to add an extra parameter to the fping command time, to set the timeout.
> In this case I have added '-t20000' to set the timeout to 20 seconds. > Probably a 1 second timeout (-t1000) would work better for you. > > To support my number of hosts, I had to hack fping.pm to reduce the > select time. I can explain more if anyone is interested. Hi Chris, please do explain. I'm working on a patch that changes a lot of things with the probes, and it will include the '-t' fping option. How many hosts do you have and what's the select time problem? Cheers, -- niko -- 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
