clock skew
the instantaneous difference between clocks on different processes; affects correctness of systems relying on wall clocks
clock skew in a sentence
“Clock skew invalidated the TLS certificate check on the newly provisioned server.”
Related Words
latent sector error
a storage fault where disk sectors are damaged and the error is detected or reported on read
lost write
a storage system informs the layer above that a write occurred when it actually has not
torn write
a storage system stores only part of a requested write, leaving data in a partially updated state
memory corruption
data read from memory differs from what was written, caused by cosmic rays or hardware defects
message corruption
an arriving message differs from the sent message due to cable degradation or electromagnetic interference
message delay
the time for a message to travel from sender to recipient; unbounded in asynchronous networks