tornadoweb/tornado — pull request #1290 by nosyjoe (2014-12-29 12:22:08+00:00)
Title: Avoid busy waiting in ioloop when system time is skipped forward 

* when the system time changes, jumps into the future make the _schedule_next method do a busy wait.
* on slow machines (RPi), jumps of a few months into the future can block the loop for a few minutes
=> added a check for big differences in current system time and the current value of the next scheduled timeout

On a first boot of an older RPi image, tornado sometimes starts before date&time gets updated through NTP, hence blocking the ioloop for several minutes.