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/EchoPingHttp.pm | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

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

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',
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