Fw: application slowing down

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Aug 20 19:36:01 EDT 2002


On 8/20/02 6:08 PM, Rich Mooney wrote:

> MetaCard did have a problem where if it ran for an extended period of time
> (roughly a day or more depending on the machine) the time it reported would
> drift away from the time reported by the computer.  I discovered this
> problem when I first started developing this very same application.  Scott
> fixed this by having MetaCard sync up with the computer whenever you request
> the time.

Interesting. So, what would happen if the script did a "get the time" 
command right before doing the "send in" polling? Would that force a 
synchronization and possibly stop the slowdown?

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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