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list Kevin Hanrahan · Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:10:54 -0400 ·
Hi all,
  I just finished adding about 100 hosts and suddenly the category under BBTEST called "Tests loaded shot up dramatically. It used to be hundredths of a second and now it is taking 35 seconds. This has now pushed my time total for all tests to be almost tripled!
What exactly "tests" are being loaded? Where can I get a better idea of what is causing this?..logs?, another test?


any help appreciated

thanks

kevin


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list Alan Sparks · Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:53:14 -0600 ·
This may or may not help you... but might be worth an experiment to see
if it does...

Something similar has happened to me in the past, due to the ARES
resolver.  Not sure what tests you've added, or whether you see any DNS
resolver failures in the bbtest DNS statistics.  But especially if so,
you could try adding "--no-ares" to the end of the "CMD bbtest-net" line
in the "[bbnet]" section of hobbitlaunch.cfg to disable the asynchronous
DNS resolver.  For my system, using it ran /much/ slower than just using
the system resolver calls... I load over 7000 tests in less than 2
seconds with it off, and it's much longer without this option.  I'm
running CentOS 4 x86_86.  Not sure why it should be so much slower.

Good luck!
-Alan
quoted from Kevin Hanrahan

Hanrahan, Kevin wrote:
Hi all,

  I just finished adding about 100 hosts and suddenly the category
under BBTEST called “Tests loaded shot up dramatically. It used to be
hundredths of a second and now it is taking 35 seconds. This has now
pushed my time total for all tests to be almost tripled!

What exactly “tests” are being loaded? Where can I get a better idea
of what is causing this?..logs?, another test?

 
any help appreciated

 
thanks

 
kevin

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list Great D Dilla · Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:32:00 +0800 ·
I have tried adding "--concurrency=10" and "--dns=IP" to bbtest CMD line in
hobbitlaunch.cfg with good results and better performance. 

You might want to try the same approach to see if it alleviates the load.

Hope this helps.

-Great
quoted from Alan Sparks


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Subject: [hobbit] tests loaded time


Hi all,

  I just finished adding about 100 hosts and suddenly the category under
BBTEST called "Tests loaded shot up dramatically. It used to be hundredths
of a second and now it is taking 35 seconds. This has now pushed my time
total for all tests to be almost tripled! 

What exactly "tests" are being loaded? Where can I get a better idea of what
is causing this?..logs?, another test?

any help appreciate

thanks


kevin