Figure 4 shows the time it takes to make a negotiation for the network (a 100Mb/s real-time ethernet), under the distributed FSF in MaccccRTE OccccS, in a system with four processing nodes, in which all the negotiations are made by a single node, with delays between negotiations. The contracts specify a network utilization of 1%, and have deadlines equal to periods. The admission test in this case is a plain rate monotonic utilization test, which gives constant time in relation to the number of servers, and has a utilization bound of 69%.