This may or may not help you... but might be worth an experiment to see if it does...

Something similar has happened to me in the past, due to the ARES resolver. Not sure what tests you've added, or whether you see any DNS resolver failures in the bbtest DNS statistics. But especially if so, you could try adding "--no-ares" to the end of the "CMD bbtest-net" line in the "[bbnet]" section of hobbitlaunch.cfg to disable the asynchronous DNS resolver. For my system, using it ran /much/ slower than just using the system resolver calls... I load over 7000 tests in less than 2 seconds with it off, and it's much longer without this option. I'm running CentOS 4 x86_86. Not sure why it should be so much slower.

Good luck! -Alan

Hanrahan, Kevin wrote:

Hi all,

I just finished adding about 100 hosts and suddenly the category under BBTEST called “Tests loaded shot up dramatically. It used to be hundredths of a second and now it is taking 35 seconds. This has now pushed my time total for all tests to be almost tripled!

What exactly “tests” are being loaded? Where can I get a better idea of what is causing this?..logs?, another test?

any help appreciated

thanks

kevin

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