The two bands ruled out a constant and ruled out nothing else. Any mapping that
is the identity at 200 and 900 passed for free, and the late tolerance was a flat
300 ms, so anything within that of the truth passed at every value forever.
Three ordinary ones survived all five scenarios on both targets: clamping the
wait to at most a second, adding 150 ms to it, and scaling it by six fifths.
The clamp is the one that matters. Its failure is verbatim the bug the last pass
claimed to fix — a host asking for five seconds gets one, forever, with nothing
reporting it — and "cap the wait so a shutdown gets noticed" is the most ordinary
spelling that line will ever be given.
So the long probe goes to 5000, above any ceiling a bridge would plausibly clamp
to, which kills the clamp and the scale on the early check and the late one. And
the late tolerance becomes a fraction of what was asked for — 60 ms plus an
eighth — which is what kills the offset: 150 ms is 75% late at the 200 ms probe
and there is no flat gap left to hide in. Measured overshoot on either target is
about 10 ms, against 85 ms allowed at the short probe and 685 at the long.
The table gets the clamp as an entry of its own, because the whole lesson here is
that a table of constants says nothing about a wait computed from the argument,
and a table of constants would go green again the moment these numbers drifted
back. Its honest limit is stated where the tolerance is defined: a scaling
smaller than an eighth survives, and nothing here claims otherwise.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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