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

[John Lane Schultz]

No, not really.  One way you could test would be to see how normal Spread
reacts when you jump the clock around and then contrast that with how it
operates using your monotonic clock.

 

Cheers!

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John Lane Schultz
Spread Concepts LLC
Phn: 443 838 2200 

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From: drago.krznaric at se.transport.bombardier.com
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Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 4:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [Spread-users] Should I dare touch the clock?

 


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?
 
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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 
Phn: 443 838 2200 
Fax: 301 560 8875 

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


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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.