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authorNiko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi>2005-02-19 13:00:04 +0100
committerNiko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi>2005-02-19 13:00:04 +0100
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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')
-rw-r--r--lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm3
-rw-r--r--lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttp.pm3
-rw-r--r--lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttps.pm4
3 files changed, 10 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
diff --git a/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttp.pm b/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttp.pm
index 464dd12..570ab66 100644
--- a/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttp.pm
+++ b/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttp.pm
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ DOC
Measures HTTP roundtrip times (web servers and caches) for SmokePing.
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 I<fill>, I<size> and I<udp> EchoPing variables are not valid for EchoPingHttp.
DOC
authors => <<'DOC',
diff --git a/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttps.pm b/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttps.pm
index 13cd7f5..629400e 100644
--- a/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttps.pm
+++ b/lib/Smokeping/probes/EchoPingHttps.pm
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ DOC
description => <<DOC,
As EchoPingHttp(3pm), but SSL-enabled.
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.
+DOC
authors => <<'DOC',
Niko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi>
DOC