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diff --git a/docs/peers.md b/docs/peers.md index 13ee85d..f19e699 100644 --- a/docs/peers.md +++ b/docs/peers.md @@ -248,6 +248,13 @@ stateDiagram-v2 once, whatever our phase; it isn't counted as an incident (`dormancies`). What that run still sends while it stops (sync messages, PINGs, a LINKS_REPLY) doesn't make it active again: only a HELLO or HELLO_REPLY from its next run does. +- **A suspended machine** (a laptop asleep) counts its peers as silent for as long as it + slept: the monotonic clock the timers run on stops meanwhile, so without that every + peer would look heard from minutes ago on waking. The peer worker compares it with a + clock that runs on (`/proc/uptime` on Linux, the wall clock elsewhere) on every pass + ([`swarm/suspend.rs`](../src/swarm/suspend.rs)); a gap of 30 s or more ages when each + peer was last heard from, so those silent longer than `dormant_after` become dormant + and are greeted again, and the time counts as not connected for the node's stability. - **Strangers** (peers that never became members: listed to us but never answering, or failing the handshake) are forgotten locally once silent for a day, so peers named to a node can't grow its list without bound. |