I get this fairly frequently. Where should I look? this is running on a beefy box, Dell 6850 server with 4 procs and 16GB of RAM.
Also, sometimes the WML generation takes 40+ seconds, pushing the run time longer then BBSLEEP.
Stew
yellow Tue Sep 11 07:31:38 2007
bbgen for Hobbit version 4.2.1d
Statistics: Hosts : 3753 Status messages : 0 Purple messages : 0 Pages : 174
Error output: Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout hobbitd status-board not available
TIME SPENT Event Starttime Duration Startup 1189510298.150425 - Load links done 1189510298.150867 0.000442 Load bbhosts done 1189510298.268625 0.117758 ACK removal done 1189510298.268694 0.000069 Load STATE done 1189510313.268106 14.999412 Color calculation done 1189510313.268867 0.000761 Hobbit pagegen start 1189510313.268893 0.000026 Hobbit pagegen done 1189510313.697295 0.428402 BB2 generation done 1189510313.698902 0.001607 BBNK generation done 1189510313.699424 0.000522 Summary transmission done 1189510313.699426 0.000002 WML generation done 1189510313.700001 0.000575 Run completed 1189510313.700003 0.000002 TIME TOTAL 15.549578