Thundering Herd Effect
A positive-feedback phenomenon in which a large number of clients, due to synchronized retry policies, issue requests simultaneously, causing the service to be hit by excess load at the moment of recovery, so that load rises rather than falls.
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The thundering herd effect refers to a large number of processes or threads being woken at the same moment and contending for the same resource, causing a surge in instantaneous load and a sharp drop in system throughput.
The Thundering Herd effect refers to a large number of requests simultaneously flooding newly recovered nodes after a failure, causing instantaneous pressure that overwhelms the nodes.
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The thundering herd effect refers to a large number of processes or threads being woken at the same moment and contending for the same resource, causing a surge in instantaneous load and a sharp drop in system throughput.
50%UnverifiedThe Thundering Herd effect refers to a large number of requests simultaneously flooding newly recovered nodes after a failure, causing instantaneous pressure that overwhelms the nodes.
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