newbie question about event duration 🔗 link

Can some one explain, or just point me to an explanation, how hobbit computes duration of an event?  

I am using a standard hobbit installation, on debian testing, testing 63 hosts.  I have not changed any test intervals from the default. I don't understanding how a system which checks every 5 minutes, and rechecks every minute can return a connectivity down event less than a minute long.

I recently had a network card in a printer go bad, and the symptom was a lot of short duration disconnects, some of which were reported by hobbit to be less than a minute long.

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Tim Hauber
ACES Network Manager
Alfred State College


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On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:51:01AM -0400, Tim Hauber wrote:

It's really simple: The ordinary check and the re-check are not
synchronized. So the re-check might happen 10 seconds after the
ordinary check, or it might happen 59 seconds after the ordinary check.


Regards,
Henrik