[smokeping-users] smokeping hanging on startup

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Robert,

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Robert Smith wrote:

> smokeping at capacity:~$ perl bin/smokeping --debug-daemon
> ### fping seems to report in 1 milliseconds
> ### assuming you are using an fping copy reporting in milliseconds
>
> but no extra logging and still hangs just like so.
>
> Wow, i just let it sit for a long time and got this:
>
> smokeping at capacity:~$ perl bin/smokeping --debug-daemon
> ### fping seems to report in 1 milliseconds
> ### assuming you are using an fping copy reporting in milliseconds
> ### assuming you are using an fping copy reporting in milliseconds

Do you have some problems with DNS on that box, or a lot of hostnames that 
need to be resolved to IP addresses in your Smokeping config?

Could you strace the smokeping process to see what it's doing while it's 
sitting there apparently hung?

Cheers, Chris.
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