[Spread-users] Should I dare touch the clock?

[drago.krznaric at se.transport.bombardier.com]

Thanky you for prompt reply.  If I would like to try to use the monotonic 
clock, do you know if there
is some test suite I could use to see that things work after the change?
  
Please consider the environment before you print / Merci de penser à 
l'environnement avant d'imprimer / Tänk på miljön innan du skriver ut 






John Schultz <jschultz at spreadconcepts.com>
2009-05-08 17:50

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Re: [Spread-users] Should I dare touch the clock?







Spread currently uses the wall clock time for all of its time based 
calculations.  If you only move the clock a little, then you probably 
won't have any issues, although I'm not 100% sure.  If you drastically 
jump the clock forward, then I can see major issues as suddenly the 
already scheduled timeouts will take forever to fire.  If you drastically 
jump the clock backwards, then a lot of timeouts will fire prematurely, 
which might cause a spurious partition or something, but the system would 
probably then return to normal operations immediately thereafter.

The events system definitely should be moved over to using a monotonic 
clock on whatever platforms such a service is available.  We would like to 
do this sometime in the future, but if you experiment with it and get 
something to work and want to contribute it back, then that would be 
great.

Cheers!
John

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John Lane Schultz
Spread Concepts LLC
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Fax: 301 560 8875

Friday, May 8, 2009, 11:19:23 AM, you wrote:


>

Hi, 

I have a single spread daemon and a bunch of programs communicating via 
spread messages 
through this daemon. All programs and the daemon are running on the same 
machine.