The Jiffies root cause leads to an interesting idea: an Glossary of Magic Constants where all kinds of important constants, limits, and overflows are tracked to

The Jiffies root cause leads to an interesting idea: an Glossary of Magic Constants where all kinds of important constants, limits, and overflows are tracked to aid in debugging. You could imagine a search engine where "tcp connection drops after 5 minutes" lists every piece of software and firmware with 5 minute and 300 second constants.