On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote: > Hello, > > you know ... patches on tracker :-) ... and discussion here. > > Do you see a major benefit using this approach instead of registering > another timer function? It was mentioned in a email that future work ill > consider having multiple timer processes (I guess it was some discussion > about nathelper improvements).
Hello Daniel, the benefit of this approach is the isolation against the normal timer subsystem. Some task thats get executed of this implementation can need quite a lot of time, e.g. imagine restarting a hanged database process. Blocking e.g. the transaction timers for several seconds is not a good thing on a busy server.. :-) A further benefit is the relative simple behaviour and implementation, this code is only app. 300 lines over all, this is much more easy for handling and debugging. Cheers, Henning _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@openser.org http://openser.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
