+ uint now = QDateTime::currentDateTime().toTime_t();
+ if(_lastPingTime != 0 && now - _lastPingTime <= (uint)(_pingTimer.interval() / 1000) + 1) {
+ // the second check compares the actual elapsed time since the last ping and the pingTimer interval
+ // if the interval is shorter then the actual elapsed time it means that this thread was somehow blocked
+ // and unable to even handle a ping answer. So we ignore those misses.