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Ideally the system has to have something in place where all processors have to acknowledge a snoop request within a few clock cycles otherwise a processor waiting to obtain data from main memory may have to hang for a while. This is another reason for wanting a directory based snooping system that minimizes the amount of messages because otherwise these processes could take a while for all of the processors to acknowledge a snoop result.