Re: {bb} increase bbd connections

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

In <1119994299.4110.38.camel@carter.pythonesque.net> Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net> writes:

>On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 20:50, Jason Beltrame wrote:
>> 
>> bb CONNECTION TO xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx TIMED OUT...
>> bb CAN'T CONNECT TO bbd SERVER @ xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

>If network congestion is the problem, your two options are better
>hardware or more hardware. Better hardware means a faster network
>card (gigabit ethernet or fibre optic) connected close to the
>"centre" of your network topology. More hardware means splitting
>off your BBNET server to a different machine or, even better,
>multiple machines.

In my experience, this is most often caused by the BB server
being overloaded so it cannot respond to incoming messages
fast enough. Having a flood of purples that trigger alarms via
e-mail/pager makes this worse, because it then has to deal with
all of the outgoing alarms that add to the load.

Check the load on this server. BB does lots of disk I/O so
moving some stuff off to a RAM disk can improve the situation
(the $BBVAR/logs/ and $BBHOME/www/html/ directories are prime
candidates) - if you have enogh RAM in your box.

Or you can use my bbgen toolkit or Hobbit to lower the load - 
both are at hobbitmon.sourceforge.net

>I order for people to provide more accurate advice, it would be
>helpful if you could let us know what hardware you're currently
>using and how many hosts/tests you are monitoring.

Yep.


Henrik

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