I've seen them too. Even on HTTP test graphs. And also not entirely sure why.
As far as the ping bounces around 20-40ms are concerned, this is a problem with hobbitping, and its polling algorithm. If you want the timing correct, I highly suggest you switch to fping. Install fping and change the FPING setting in hobbitserver.cfg: FPING="/usr/sbin/fping" I will try that out. I remember I had problems using fping and switched to hobbitping therefore.
Note you must make sure the xymon or hobbit user has rights to run fping, either by a sudo arrangement or by setting up a setuid capability such as: chmod g+x /usr/sbin/fping chgrp xymon /usr/sbin/fping chmod u+s /usr/sbin/fping Maybe that was my fping problem. :-)
Not sure about your statement regarding connect tests running 35 seconds. You mean the ping or tcp test times listed in the bbtest info page? I mean the Ping test times in the bbtest page:
TIME SPENT Event Starttime Duration bbtest-net startup 1250148155.074249 - Service definitions loaded 1250148155.075870 0.001621 Tests loaded 1250148155.103019 0.027149 DNS lookups completed 1250148155.105950 0.002931 Test engine setup completed 1250148155.109315 0.003365 TCP tests completed 1250148155.110463 0.001148 PING test completed (651 hosts) 1250148187.146047 32.035584 <--- This one PING test results sent 1250148187.283501 0.137454 Test result collection completed 1250148187.283511 0.000010 LDAP test engine setup completed 1250148187.283513 0.000002 LDAP tests executed 1250148187.283522 0.000009 LDAP tests result collection completed 1250148187.283523 0.000001 NSLOOKUP tests executed 1250148187.287590 0.004067 Test results transmitted 1250148187.360348 0.072758 bbtest-net completed 1250148187.362335 0.001987 TIME TOTAL 32.288086
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