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diff --git a/docs/dashboard.md b/docs/dashboard.md index 0b1b10d..72d77da 100644 --- a/docs/dashboard.md +++ b/docs/dashboard.md @@ -140,11 +140,23 @@ at one speed: over a longer link they arrive later. Each follows the line it wen a PING or PONG of the paths layer, which names the address it went to, the line of that address's transport (curved, beside the one in use); any other, the line in use. They come from the node's message log as it goes: the node sends what it logged a tenth -of a second after the first of them, so a message runs soon after it went, and the -messages of a moment start as far apart as they were sent. Of more than 6 in a moment -on a link and way, 6 run, shared out by message kind, spread over the moment; each kind -in its colour (named in the legend; the console colours them alike). After a gap (the -computer slept, the stream stalled), only the last 2 s of what then comes runs. A dot +of a second after the first of them. Each node's stream comes its own way, a subscribed +node's over the network to it, so they arrive later than this node's, each by its +path. So messages run not as they arrive but when they went, on one timeline: each at +the time its node logged it, taken back by how far that node's clock is ahead of this +node's (as the map chains the clocks), a while behind real time. How far behind +(`behind: …` after the sliders) is the most any stream lagged within the last 30 s and +a tenth of a second more; its tooltip shows how it came about (which node's stream +lagged the most, by how much, and the margin) and the three slowest streams, each with +the most and the least it lagged, so a slow path shows. Lags are measured by the +browser's clock against this node's: one that is off adds to all of them alike. Messages of different nodes then run as far apart as they went, +give or take how well their clocks are known (within the bounds the clock chain has). A +message the page knows only from its receiver (its sender's messages aren't read: not +subscribed) arrives at the time its receiver logged it, starting a crossing before. +Of more than 6 at once on a link and way, 6 run, shared out by message kind, spread +over the moment; each kind in its colour (named in the legend; the console colours +them alike). Messages lagging more than 10 s (after a gap: the computer slept, a stream +stalled) don't run. A dot is as large as its message (by the size's logarithm: a ping small, a large sync message large; shared out, as its kind's messages on average); the `size` slider right after their legend makes all dots larger or smaller, and the `speed` slider after |