{
 "id": "a-drain-multiplier-cannot-be-measured-in-situ",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "A drain multiplier cannot be measured in situ above 1, so the correct method changes sign at the pole",
 "symptom": "Measuring the drain multiplier during live operation gives correct answers below 1 and meaningless ones above it. With compression enabled, three transports whose true multipliers are 2.19, 3.75 and 9.29 all measured approximately 1.0 in situ \u2014 0.9985, 1.0136 and 0.9851 \u2014 because once a transport can keep up, the buffer stays empty and the measurement reports the PRODUCTION rate rather than the transport's capacity.",
 "hw": [
  "esp32-s3"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "esp-idf",
  "arduino-esp32",
  "esp-now"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64",
  "debian-13"
 ],
 "intent": "Measuring how fast a transport drains a backlog, accurately, at both ends of a rate ladder",
 "date": "2026-08-28",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "check",
  "body"
 ],
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}