On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:38:07PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 19:37 +0200, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> 
> > > Suppose I want to see what the average time is for completion of monitor
> > > events, is that possible?
> > 
> > Afraid not. Though there's an enhancement request for that.
> > 
> > > I am curious what the completion time is under high load. Also, it would
> > > be good to determine the timeout value that is larger than 99.9999% of
> > > the monitors. I know I could set it to 600 seconds, but that seems
> > > excessive, I would rather have educated values.
> > 
> > Of course. Well, something like 15 or 20 seconds should fit the
> > bill. If it goes higher than that then perhaps it should be
> > considered to be an outage. That depends on your
> > setup/users/services. Of course, there's no hard rule on what do
> > on high host load.
> 
> There are times when the load is around 40,

Wow! Any money left in the budget for more resources? ;-)

> these are the times when a
> timeout of 30s is not enough.
> 
> Currently I have very little monitoring. Actually *no* monitoring of
> resources and only a couple of ping nodes.

But you do monitor the IP address. That's a resource too.

> If a monitor does not return when the monitor interval occurs, is a
> second monitor action spawned?

No. The next monitor op's scheduled after the current one has
finished.

> Such as:
> 
> (interval = 15s, timeout = 30s)
> 
> second 0:  first monitor occurs
> [no response]
> second 15: is a second monitor action spawned?
> [still no response]
> second 30: timeout occurs
> 
> This question is for educational purposes.

Thanks,

Dejan

> Thanks,
> 
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