From: mike 


Where I work, we have the externally-facing web servers on one box, they
redirect the request to another box running jboss servers, which then
access a cluster of nodes for Oracle.

Trying to debug a transaction when there are millions of hits per day is
tough enough, even tougher when the clocks are not sync'd.

 /m


On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:20:51 -0500, Gary Britt
 wrote:

>I think their payroll app or time reporting portion of it was distributed
>like you say.  I don't know about multiple servers.  Definitely multiple
>locations.  I'm not sure if there was anything else.
>
>Gary
>
>mike wrote:
>> On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:22:45 -0500, Gary Britt
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> I was just wondering why some people are so
>>> anal about snyc'd times
>>
>>
>> If you have to track problems in a distributed app across multiple
>> servers, you need to have sync'd clocks.
>>
>>  /m

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