[erlang-questions] Curious: disparate net_ticktime's

T Ty tty.erlang@REDACTED
Thu May 22 11:53:17 CEST 2014


I've notice this with Mnesia nodes as well when restarting a Mnesia node
while under heavy load. It is one of the gotcha that usually appears in
production. Ethernet bonding heh.

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Scott Lystig Fritchie <
fritchie@REDACTED> wrote:

>
> AFAIK, this can also be tickled by a very large message sent between
> nodes and the network is "slow enough"(*).  The inet_drv driver may be
> busy transferring data in the middle of that message, but that busy-ness
> does not affect the ticktime ticker thingie.
>
> -Scott
>
> (*) It might be that 1Gbit/sec Ethernet or 100Mbit/sec Ethernet is just
> too slow to transfer a 3 Gbyte Erlang term(**).  Or you've been bitten
> by a congested network that's dropping packets.  Or something else.
>
> (**) This has never, ever, accidentally happened in a Riak cluster, oh,
> heavens, no.
> ______________________________________________
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