1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/api/dashboard/dashboard.html b/src/api/dashboard/dashboard.html
index 8ee1ee5..a5a96e8 100644
--- a/src/api/dashboard/dashboard.html
+++ b/src/api/dashboard/dashboard.html
@@ -2005,6 +2005,9 @@ flowsToggle.addEventListener("click", () => {
   }
 });
 let lastTraffic = null;
+// When the last update's traffic came, by the wall clock (it runs on while the computer
+// sleeps, unlike `performance.now()` on some systems).
+let lastTrafficAt = 0;
 const flows = [];
 let flowFrame = null;
 // Messages and bytes by kind, of a peer's `traffic.sent` or `.received`.
@@ -2081,7 +2084,13 @@ function dotsFor(kinds, total) {
 function trafficArrived() {
   if (!state) return;
   const self = state.node.id, now = performance.now();
-  const dots = flowsShown && !calm.matches && !document.hidden &&
+  // Only for an update in its time: not the first after a gap (the computer slept, the
+  // stream stalled), whose counts grew over all of it, nor those queued meanwhile and
+  // arriving at once with it, each of which would add its dots to the same 2 s.
+  const wall = Date.now(), gap = wall - lastTrafficAt;
+  lastTrafficAt = wall;
+  const timely = gap >= FLOW_SPREAD_MS / 4 && gap <= FLOW_SPREAD_MS * 2.5;
+  const dots = timely && flowsShown && !calm.matches && !document.hidden &&
     !document.getElementById("map").classList.contains("collapsed");
   const current = new Map();
   for (const [id, peer] of Object.entries(state.peers.peers)) {