summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorNiko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi>2005-02-19 13:00:04 +0100
committerNiko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi>2005-02-19 13:00:04 +0100
commit41b34e09a8692d9253d39d893ad09fdbfec0353c (patch)
tree22bad3a3f05656a822913209f5c41f470fcdb08e /lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm
parent2206afb0d6aaf857ecf739ae0b639bf215106294 (diff)
downloadsmokeping-41b34e09a8692d9253d39d893ad09fdbfec0353c.tar.gz
smokeping-41b34e09a8692d9253d39d893ad09fdbfec0353c.tar.xz
Doc updates:
* mention the minimum # of pings in CHANGES and smokeping_upgrade * add a note about possibly lowering the pings variable in the HTTP probes
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm')
-rw-r--r--lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm b/lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm
index 8e40067..fdce3d6 100644
--- a/lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm
+++ b/lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ sub pod_hash {
Niko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi>
DOC
notes => <<DOC,
+You should consider setting a lower value for the C<pings> variable than the
+default 20, as repetitive URL fetching may be quite heavy on the server.
+
The URL to be tested used to be specified by the variable 'url' in earlier
versions of Smokeping, and the 'host' setting did not influence it in any
way. The variable name has now been changed to 'urlformat', and it can