With caught-up finally an equality, the last red test turned out to be
telling the truth about something real: declarations queue, the machine
applies them one at a time at half a minute each, and by the twenty-
fifth test it is minutes behind the latest push. 240 seconds was not a
generous bound on one apply — it was an accidental bound on the whole
backlog.
Doubled rather than tuned, and the real remedy filed instead: a machine
asked to be five successive things should become the last one, which
is a decision about the link rather than about this timeout
(novox/hq 04-ISSUES/031).