Subj : Polling
To : Zip
From : Accession
Date : Sat Apr 17 2021 08:15 am
On 16 Apr 2021, Zip said the following...
Zi> I'm wondering if it could have something to do with time adjustment
Zi> (clock going backwards? or does it just slow down to adjust backwards?),
Zi> as I believe strace output suggested that it was calling gettimeofday()
Zi> repeatedly and waiting for some kind of timer...
I guess anything is possible. However, I can't really think of any reason as to why a direct MIS POLL 21:1/100 process would lock up, unless the connection went bad and hung, or the connection's handshakes didn't finish properly.
