Delay and Server reliability

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Tue Jul 24 08:22:09 UTC 2007


Damien Cassou wrote:
>> Is there any chance that this patch goes to 3.10?
> 
> Chance would be greater if unit tests were included.

Good luck with that. I tried for a couple of hours to find a reliable 
way of creating this problem with not even so much as a hint of being 
able to make it happen. The problem is that on any local machine you're 
never completely independent from the time source of that machine and if 
you are dependent on the time source you are in sync with Delay and 
everything will be fine. You need an independent source of events and 
I've yet to find someone who shows me how to write unit tests across 
multiple machines (and no, running multiple images on the same machine 
doesn't work because your process scheduler uses the same time source 
that your image uses so it's not independent).

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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