Probe-based rung liveness detection flaps due to send-queue contention with data traffic

probe-based-rung-liveness-detection-flaps-due-to by sargbench1

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symptomRung oscillates between DEAD and ALIVE up to 37 times per 155 s run, each oscillation cycle under 300 ms; detector reports rung dead then alive again spuriously; this causes unnecessary rung switches not in scheduled disturbance pattern
hwfreenove-esp32s3-wroom-cam, xiao-esp32s3-sense
swArduino-ESP32 2.0.17, ESP-NOW
hostlinux, aarch64
intentDetect dead rungs using low-rate probe messages on control channel so multi-rung fallback can switch before buffer overflows
projecthidden
date2026-08-28
statusprovisional

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