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Even if they don't start synchronized, something as simple as a hiccup on the receiving side of all such pings would make them more and more synchronized over t
by puzzle 8y ago
Even if they don't start synchronized, something as simple as a hiccup on the receiving side of all such pings would make them more and more synchronized over time. Such is the life of anyone operating large sites.
- convolvatron 8y agothis is a really good paper on this effect - https://ee.lbl.gov/papers/sync_94.pdf they suggest factoring out the service time from the timer scheduling to defeat it. a generally more robust approach is to select a timeout interval from a distribution.