[squeak-dev] Socket clock rollover issues

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Tue Apr 28 04:30:02 UTC 2009


Hi -

I'm not sure anyone cares about this (most likely Seaside users), but 
class Socket has some issues with clock-rollover which can be seen on 
high load servers that have enough uptime and load.

The problem is caused by Socket>>deadlineSecs: which at the time of the 
clock rollover computes a deadline that can never be reached. If you've 
seen connections that wouldn't time out apparently at random there is a 
chance you have been affected by this type of issue.

Bug (and fix) are posted at http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7343

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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