I have an application that uses libevent timers to trigger periodic database operations.
Following is the general overview of how the timer is used. 1. A timer is set to trigger at a specific time. 2. The process continues to run other operations. 3. The timer triggers at the right time, does DB operations, sets the timer to triggered after a specific number of seconds (within the next 5 minutes). 4. The process continues to run other operations. 5. The timer triggers but earlier than the number of seconds set in step 3. The first few timer triggers look correct. After that initially the timer seems to trigger only a few seconds earlier than the number of seconds set in step 3. But it keeps getting worse. It looks like the magnitude of error in how early the timer is triggered depends on the length of DB operations done inside the timer's event handler function. Eventually the timer triggers at unpredictable times and it's a mess because the DB operations happen at weird times. Any idea why this might be happening? Thanks, Elan.
