so I would disable the built-in NTP test and replace it with this ntpd test?

Looking through the code, it appears to handle these in a blocking mode as well, waiting for a reply before going to the next one.

I would think a non-blocking design would be faster. Not sure this would fix the problem, or just hide it by putting it in an external script that could take more than 5 minutes.

Stewart

2010/5/22 Alex <alex at bakarasse.de>

Try this script:

http://www.bakarasse.de/pages/en/xymon-monitoring/server-side-plugins/ntpd.s...

Is there any way to speed up the NTP tests? My run is taking longer than 300 seconds. 229 of that is NTP.

Error output: WARNING: Runtime 322 longer than time limit (300)

TIME SPENT Event Starttime Duration bbtest-net startup 1274487671.562962

Service definitions loaded 1274487671.564364 0.001402 Tests loaded, hostname lookups done 1274487671.786542 0.222178 Test engine setup completed 1274487671.792157 0.005615 TCP tests completed 1274487681.995479 10.203322 PING test completed (1220 hosts) 1274487728.186588 46.191109 PING test results sent 1274487728.203649 0.017061 Test result collection completed 1274487728.203792 0.000143 LDAP test engine setup completed 1274487728.203793 0.000001 LDAP tests executed 1274487728.203795 0.000002 LDAP tests result collection completed 1274487728.203796 0.000001 DNS tests executed 1274487763.561146 35.357350 NTP tests executed 1274487993.128128 229.566982 Test results transmitted 1274487993.184690 0.056562 bbtest-net completed 1274487993.186144 0.001454 TIME TOTAL 321.623182

-- Stewart

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-- Stewart

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says "You're all idiots", and pours two beers.