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bbtest-net output & poll time

list Olivier Beau
Mon, 4 Apr 2005 23:34:30 +0200
Message-Id: <user-f3bfd06d6131@xymon.invalid>

oops.. havent seen that

on my hobbit bbgen report :
Load bbhosts done        1112650273.999850          0.659456


versus 56s in bbtest's report..


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olivier


Selon Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid>:
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:09:47PM -0400, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS wrote:
specifically the "Tests Loaded" section.  Does 20 seconds seem
reasonable for a bb-hosts file our our size? 
No, it seems a bit much. My main server has about 1500 hosts in it,
and spends 4 seconds loading that file (actually, it is split into
about 30 files). If you look at the "bbgen" status, what's the time
reported for the "Load bbhosts done" line ?
From bbgen:
Load bbhosts done          1112648694.989501   0.178303 
OK, that's interesting - because it means that the code that does the
basic parsing of the file is pretty fast, and the code that handles
the network test setup is awfullly slow.

I hadn't noticed that before, but I looked at my own servers now and
there is a difference between the time for loading the bb-hosts file
for just bbgen and for bbtest-net (1 second vs. 4 seconds in my
case). I w