@@ -229,10 +229,14 @@
 
 ;; gets and calls updater list based on curr-tab-num
 ;;
 (define (dboard:common-run-curr-updaters commondat #!key (tab-num #f))
   ;; (sync-db-to-tmp (dboard:common-get-tabdat commondat tab-num: tab-num)) ;; no longer applies
+
+  ;; maybe need sleep here?
+
+  
   (if (dboard:common-get-tabdat commondat tab-num: tab-num) ;; only update if there is a tabdat
       (let* ((tnum     (or tab-num (dboard:commondat-curr-tab-num commondat)))
 	     (updaters (hash-table-ref/default (dboard:commondat-updaters commondat)
 					       tnum
 					       '())))