On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 01:18:57PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> In our experience, most people actually expect this number to be
> fairly high.  For example, our traffic generator runs a little bit of
> traffic to populate caches, pauses for a couple of seconds, before
> finally starting the main test.  On top of that, we've had some minor
> complaints from people managing deployments about how low this number
> is.
> 
> Originally we used 1.5 seconds because the flow revalidation was so
> slow that we wanted to seriously limit the size of the flow table to
> be sure we can keep up.  However, now that we've made such scale
> improvements, bumping the default up seems reasonable.
> 
> All of that said, we don't feel all that strongly about this change,
> is there a specific concern you have?  Perhaps we can address it...

Not anymore, you addressed all my concerns in your reply.
Thanks for explaining it,
fbl

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