There are certainly some good methods out there for determining time deltas over a network. While you cant guarantee the result, you can get a good appromixation with something like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3755208/measuring-time-difference-between-networked-devices
However, as I understand it, time deltas will soon be a thing of the past. The sync client is being revised to use checksums instead of timestamps over the network such that issues like yours will not be a problem. On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Juan Carlos Cornejo <myli...@paintblack.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I found that the ownCloud Desktop client (built from git) refuses to > sync a directory which has more than 2000 files. The reason I found > for this is because the time_diff_delta is always greater than 5 > seconds (actually, always coming in at 7 seconds). > > Not knowing exactly what this time_diff_delta is supposed to measure ( > differences between server time and local time, or total time required > by the server to respond), I ask here in order to figure out a > solution. > > Basically, if the goal is just to find out the time difference between > the server and local time, then this will always fail in cases when it > takes the server a while to process the request (such as having too > many files). A sort of fix is to measure the delta by comparing the > server time to a time right before sending the request (a difference I > found to always be negligible) as opposed to after the request > returns. Unfortunately, I think this might produce misleading results > in the case where the delay was not caused by a busy server, but by > latency in the network. Perhaps a combination of the two might be > required. > > But I'm thinking, would it instead be possible to have the server (and > by that I mean SabreDAV) respond with the total time it took the > server to process the request? Then, in principle, this could take > care of both server delay and network latency issues. > > Any thoughts? > > Best, > Juan Carlos > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > Owncloud@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list Owncloud@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
