What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Set view.setInterval to 4 hours (240x60x1000)
2. Wait a few weeks without rebooting
3. Task will start to be executed numerous times in a row without delay,
instead of every four hours
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Should run every four hours. Instead it runs immediately one time after
another. This causes the equivalent of a denial-of-service attack when
numerous such clients access a web service at a constant time after
Windows Update or some other event affecting the internal view.setInterval
timer on numerous clients.
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
We see this behavior on the server side. Not sure what version end users
have. They show Windows XP and Vista on the logs.
Please provide any additional information below.
This behavior seems to be consistent with an integer turning negative
after overflowing, and causing repeat executions until the integer turns
positive again. Given the above parameters, such incidents with clear
activity peaks were observed for example on September 24, 2008
(Wednesday), October 5, 2008 (Sunday), November 18, 2008 (Tuesday),
December 24, 2008 (Wednesday), January 3 and January 6, 2009 (Saturday,
Tuesday), February 5, 2009 (Thursday) and March 3rd, 2009 (Tuesday).
Original issue reported on code.google.com by cloa...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2009 at 1:06
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
cloa...@gmail.comon 10 Mar 2009 at 1:06