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> What an interesting and insidious bug! Bugs based on a time calculations can often show themselves later when view through a longer lens and scope of time...s
by bentcorner 5y ago
> What an interesting and insidious bug! Bugs based on a time calculations can often show themselves later when view through a longer lens and scope of time...sometimes WAY longer than you'd expect.
My personal anecdote. I like playing online games, and as you know latency is the killer. I enjoyed playing in the evenings after work, and inexplicably I started noticing my latency spike from around 50ms to > 1s. Extremely frustrating.
I had no idea what caused this so I set up a simple ping command and had it save it to a graph.
Well, the next day I noticed the pings were steady throughout the whole day, then in the evenings I'd get these chunks of bad time. It turns out when my wife would watch Netflix in the other room (and it was only Netflix), it'd cause something to go awry with the router and latency would spike for me. (The really weird thing was that it was a combination of a Roku, Netflix, and a wired switch - change any of those and the problem went away).
Later during the pandemic, I also diagnosed drop-outs on my network due to kids in my neighborhood being online during school hours. Like clockwork I'd get a bad network from around 10pm and it'd be fine ending around 3 or 4. On school holidays and weekends my network was fine.