[ Sorry for the delay in responding ]

> In snmpd.c, the timeout value is defined as:
> #define TIMETICK         500000L
> 
> Does anyone have any insight how this value was determined?

That value corresponds to half a second, and was chosen to allow a
reasonably prompt reaction of the agent to "external" events,
running alarm events, etc.

The latest version of the agent uses a different approach
and this particular definition is now redundent, but has
simply never been removed.

Dave




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