Timing failure is a failure of a
process
A process is a series or set of activities that interact to produce a result; it may occur once-only or be recurrent or periodic.
Things called a process include:
Business and management
*Business process, activities that produce a specific se ...
, or part of a process, in a synchronous
distributed system
A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed computing is a field of computer sci ...
or
real-time system
Real-time computing (RTC) is the computer science term for hardware and software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within specified time constrain ...
to meet limits set on execution time, message delivery,
clock drift
Clock drift refers to several related phenomena where a clock does not run at exactly the same rate as a reference clock. That is, after some time the clock "drifts apart" or gradually desynchronizes from the other clock. All clocks are subject to ...
rate, or
clock skew Clock skew (sometimes called timing skew) is a phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computer systems) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times due to gate or, in more advanced ...
.
Asynchronous distributed systems cannot be said to have timing failures as guarantees are not provided for
response times
Response may refer to:
*Call and response (music), musical structure
*Reaction (disambiguation)
*Request–response
**Output or response, the result of telecommunications input
*Response (liturgy), a line answering a versicle
*Response (music) or ...
.
Distributed computing problems
Real-time computing
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