[smokeping-users] Issues with high speed curl probes

[Russell Dwarshuis]

It's morse code: 'help me, i am trapped in a data center' ;-)

Seriously, I've seen the same broken line on graphs when I had a probe 
that was taking too long to run.  Check your config for a non-responsive 
host (assuming you have lots of other stuff in your config file).  You can 
turn on debugging if you can't spot the host by eyeballing the graphs.


                                           -Russell Dwarshuis

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Jonah Horowitz wrote:

> I was running this configuration for awhile and everything worked fine.
> We had a power outage at our data center, and when it came back up, the
> graphs (and the data) started looking like this:
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/aspenjonah/3811409039/sizes/o/
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> I'm just wondering if anyone has seen something similar, or knows how to
> fix it.  I tried upping my forks parameter on my smokeping server, but
> that didn't seem to fix the problem.
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> My config for the probe is:
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> + Curl
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> binary = /usr/bin/curl
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> forks = 30
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> offset = 50%
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> timeout = 5
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> ++ CurlSlow
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> step = 300
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> ++ CurlFast
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> step = 60
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> + LooksmartURLs
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> menu = Looksmart URLs
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> title = Looksmart URLs
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> slaves = sh-mon1i
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> probe = CurlFast
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> ++ wwwLooksmartCom
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> title = www.looksmart.com
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> host = www.looksmart.com
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> urlformat = http://%host%
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> TIA,
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> Jonah
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