[LEAPSECS] Coding this week, and a trick for timeouts over leap seconds.

[Paul J. Ste. Marie]

> On 10/1/2011 5:16 AM, Paul Sheer wrote:

>> I am busy implementing some heartbeat monitoring code between two

>> machines. The spec calls for a 1 second recovery.

>>

>> Basically if I get no heartbeats for 1 full second then I should

>> consider the peer system to have failed.


Sounds like you're generating once per second heartbeats, and failing if 
a second elapses between heartbeats.  This is a recipe for failure.

Increase either the timeout or the heartbeat pulse rate.

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         --Paul