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diff --git a/docs/glossary.md b/docs/glossary.md index 644279e..e8ccdee 100644 --- a/docs/glossary.md +++ b/docs/glossary.md @@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ is passed over for the next. (`--keepalive`): a PING and its PONG, and every third time a **STATUS** and its STATUS_REPLY instead, carrying the sender's heads (or a digest of them and some of them), epoch and readiness. The two sides of a pair take turns; the one that **leads** -the pair sends the first. +the pair sends the first. The paths layer's PINGs of a path take turns with the peer's +too, so each side measures a path's round trip every other interval: a shorter +`--keepalive` measures more often. **initial sync**: a joining node's first complete sync. It's **caught up** once a ready peer with non-empty heads has nothing left that it lacks. |