On 3/8/2011 8:57 AM, Matt wrote:
> I just got an inexpensive VPS too have an outside server to play/test
> with. I am pinging it every 5 minutes and graphing with MRTG on
> another CentOS box. This works fine to all servers but the VPS. The
> first ping to the VPS is always crud and following ones are fine.
>
> [root@ns1 scripts]# ping X
> PING X 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from X: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=773 ms
> 64 bytes from X: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=42.4 ms
> 64 bytes from X: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=42.8 ms
> 64 bytes from X: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=43.1 ms
>
> Makes my graph for that one look real bad because it looks at first
> ping only. Thought about modifying my script to send a warm up ping
> first but I just don't think I should have to do that or is this a
> normal thing for a VPS that is pretty much idle?
How many routers are there between you and the target? Normally they
cache recently-used routes for a short time but have to do a more
expensive lookup for the first access. That probably has more of an
effect than the target's own response.
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Les Mikesell
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