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authorAliaksey Kandratsenka <[email protected]>2013-04-04 17:14:51 -0700
committerFredrik Gustafsson <[email protected]>2013-04-19 10:52:24 +0200
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fix excessive CPU consumption of timer_server
I've found stdlib's timer to burn CPU without good reason. Here's what happens. The problem is that it sleeps in milliseconds but computes time in microseconds. And there is bug in code to compute milliseconds to sleep. It computes microseconds difference between now and nearest timer event and then does _truncating_ division by 1000. So on average it sleeps 500 microseconds _less than needed_. On wakeup its checks do I have timer tick that already occurred? No. Ok how much I need to sleep ? It does that bad computation again and gets 0 milliseconds. So next gen_server timeout happens right away only to find we're still before closest timer tick and to decide to sleep 0 milliseconds again. And again and again. This commit changes division to pick ceiling of ratio rather than floor. So that we always sleep not less then difference between now and closest event time.
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