{
 "id": "check-your-timeout-against-your-slowest-transaction-before",
 "kind": "feedback",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Check your timeout against your slowest transaction before believing a sweep of failure rates",
 "symptom": "A parameter sweep shows total failure at one end of the range and a clean result at the other, which looks like a textbook limit. The failing end is an artefact of the measurement harness.",
 "sw": [
  "micropython"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Sweep a parameter and measure the error rate at each point without generating the errors yourself",
 "date": "2026-08-20",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}