I am working on some code using python and a distributed system. Some particular message is sent on one machine (with a timestamp logged) and after the message is received, a timestamp is made. I am having problems with negative latencies happening under intense CPU load. There is ntp sync happening so the machines should be very well in sync. Example:
machine1 ---- sendTime = time.time() <Call to send message> machine2 --- <Got a message> recvTime = time.time() Latency = recvTime-sendTime is NEGATIVE Is it possible that the CPU load is affecting the accuracy of the time.time() call, or that the relative difference in CPU load between the machines is causing this delta inaccuracy? Any help would be appreciated. Kyle Harrigan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
