Re: [Twisted-Python] accurate periodic call

2012-02-19 Thread gelin yan
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Itamar Turner-Trauring < ita...@itamarst.org> wrote: > On 02/19/2012 11:49 AM, Zoran Bošnjak wrote: > > Hello all, > > I was astonished to find out that looping call period depends on the > system time by default. The periodic tick can even stall for a long time,

Re: [Twisted-Python] accurate periodic call

2012-02-19 Thread Itamar Turner-Trauring
On 02/19/2012 11:49 AM, Zoran Bošnjak wrote: > Hello all, > I was astonished to find out that looping call period depends on the system > time by default. The periodic tick can even stall for a long time, if the > system time jumps backwards during program execution. It turned out that this > is

Re: [Twisted-Python] Regression in Gtk2 support testing

2012-02-19 Thread Itamar Turner-Trauring
On 02/18/2012 10:59 AM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > Hello all, > > Since #4558 was merged, introducing "gi reactor" based on the new Python > bindings for gobject, all testing of the Gtk2 reactor has been disabled, > on all platforms. > > This is a two-part problem. > > The first part is the

[Twisted-Python] accurate periodic call

2012-02-19 Thread Zoran Bošnjak
Hello all, I was astonished to find out that looping call period depends on the system time by default. The periodic tick can even stall for a long time, if the system time jumps backwards during program execution. It turned out that this is in fact a python problem (not providing a monotonic ti