[smokeping-users] Re: http Probe problem

[Tobias Oetiker]

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 <Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de>:
>
> > 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?
>
>

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