[Wrapper-user] Make Tick timer the default?

[Leif M. <le...@ta...>]

Hi all,
In version 3.1.0 of the Wrapper, I added a new experimental tick based
timer to
replace the timing mechanism that had existed in all previous versions
of the
product. It can be enabled by setting the following property:
wrapper.use_system_time=false

Version 3.1.0 turned out to have a couple bugs, but 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 have
proved to be much more reliable than the old system time based timer.
I have been using this new timer for a few months now on all of my customer
applications without any problems. It appears to be much more stable
when the
system is under heavy loads. This means that you are much less likely to get
unwanted restarts etc.

I never got much feedback from anyone on how this new timer has been
working. :-/ Unless I hear any negative feedback, I am planning to make this
new timer the default in the next release of the Wrapper.

The old system based timer will still be available by setting the above
property to true:
wrapper.use_system_time=true

The next release is still a ways off, but I would not mind hearing some
feedback one way or another. Timing is extremely critical to the inner
workings of the Wrapper so it would be good make sure this feature
gets as much testing as possible. Especially under high load / low resource
environments.

Cheers,
Leif