[Spread-users] Re: [Spread-users]: Max time delivery?
Matthias Urlichs
smurf at noris.de
Fri May 17 14:49:36 EDT 2002
Hi,
Jonathan Stanton:
> An interesting problem that occurs with this type of feature is that it is
> not clear in a distributed system who's clock represents 'real' time. If
> one clock is slow and so the message is marked as being sent an hour ago,
> should it be discarded immediately upon reaching another machine?
>
If both/all machines run NTP, this is not a problem.
Slow (or fast) clocks cause problems with other protocols, so having
clocks in sync is a reasonable requirement.
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