when an xo loses connection, how long does it take to disappear from other's neighbor view?

[Simon McVittie]

On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 at 12:05:59 +0200, Morgan Collett wrote:
> Giannis Galanis wrote:
> > 1. Is there a way to restart the presence service? In that way we can
> > resolve a weird state. Will killing restarting the porcess work?
> 
> Killing it will result in it being restarted. However, Sugar remains in
> an inconsistent state, with buddies stuck on the mesh view if they left
> while PS was not running, since PS never told Sugar that they left.

The situation would actually be worse than that, see #4681.

    Simon