time.time() under load between two machines

[Michael Hoffman]

kwharrigan at yahoo.com wrote:
> I am working on some code using python and a distributed system.  Some
> particular message is sent on one machine (with a timestamp logged) and
> after the message is received, a timestamp is made.  I am having
> problems with negative latencies happening under intense CPU load.

How negative are we talking about? What platforms are you using?
-- 
Michael Hoffman