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.

Regards,
Nick

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