dashboard: ignore traffic while suspended

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diff --git a/docs/dashboard.md b/docs/dashboard.md
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@@ -105,7 +105,9 @@ at one speed: over a longer link they arrive later.
 They come from the per-peer message counts, which arrive every 2 s: what was sent and
 received since is spread over the next 2 s, at most 6 dots per link and direction,
 shared out by message kind, each kind in its colour (named in the legend; the console
-colours them alike). A dot is as large as its kind's messages were on average
+colours them alike). Counts that come after a gap (the computer slept, the stream
+stalled), and those that were queued meanwhile and come at once with them, show no
+dots: they would all run at once. A dot is as large as its kind's messages were on average
 (by the size's logarithm: a ping small, a large sync message large); the `size` slider
 right after their legend makes all dots larger or smaller, and the `speed` slider after
 it makes them run faster or slower (0.1 to 0.9 map units per millisecond, 0.3 at