[Spread-users] Message sequence counter wrap bug fixed

[Alec H. Peterson]

Hi Martin,

On Feb 2, 2009, at 10:19, M S wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> in the meantime I did some stress testing concerning that patch and I
> am no longer sure about it.
>
> Instead of a 2^31 limit I tried a 4096 limit. This leads to a faster
> counter re-initialisation by dropping the token every 4 hours in case
> of our application. This is working fine 3 or 5 times but afterwards
> one of the spread daemons will exit with a message like this:
>
> 2009-01-19 21:28:08 GMT Send_new_packets: created packet 3589  
> already exist 3
> Exit caused by Alarm(EXIT)


FWIW I did essentially the same thing into our patched version of  
3.17.3 and it's been running for several hours, doing the right thing,  
with no crashes.

Looks good to me.

Alec

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