Re: [Nagios-devel] Max concurrent checks - spreading the next_time

[Hiren P. <hir...@gm...>]

Ton Voon wrote:

> 
>> I can't help but think that something like this could have been quite
>> easily resolved with a round-robin scheduling queue, where items  
>> requested
>> to be queued would simply get inserted within 5 seconds of the  
>> requested
>> time where there are the most free slots. The prng idea will probably
>> work just as well though, and I'm fairly certain you could just use
>>
>>  next_time = service->check_interval - 7 + (*service->description &  
>> 0xf);
>>
>> to get a distribution almost equally good without having to bother
>> about the PRNG-business. This would yield 7 seconds +-, which is
>> probably good enough.
> 
> I notice that rand() is already used elsewhere in nagios, so I will go  
> with that instead.
> 
I haven't seen this being an issue with our setup, but if there's a way 
to simulate it and you'd like me to test this for you, I'd be glad to.