Brian Reichert wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 01:46:39PM -0600, Alan Robertson wrote:
>> Brian Reichert wrote:
>>> I can provide heartbeat logs, and tcpdump capture files, if anyone
>>> wants to poke.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I'd appreciate any advice/pointers you folks could provide...
>> Can you send me the logs? Did you have debug on?
>
> I did not have debug on, no. I'll try to reconstruct my experiments...
>
>> Heartbeat really doesn't care about the time of day clock.
>
> Really? Then why the LookForClockJumps routine, and the maintenance
> of the ClockJustJumped variable?
Historical reasons. _to my knowledge_ there is no dependency on time of
day. We're pretty careful to use only times(2)-derived interval
measurements.
>> HOWEVER, there is a bug for one period of 40.96 seconds every 400 days
>> or so. In theory you could have jumped into that range. In practice,
>> it seems unlikely.
>
> Weird. Where is that bug documented?
It's a kernel/glibc bug that we worked around in CVS. And, it's
documented in Bugzilla. Both ours and Novell's.
--
Alan Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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claim from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William
Wilberforce
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