From 41b34e09a8692d9253d39d893ad09fdbfec0353c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:00:04 +0000
Subject: 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

---
 lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'lib/Smokeping/probes/Curl.pm')

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
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