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This is the bit I found curious: "adding a small amount of random latency to requests to storage servers counter-intuitively reduced the average latency and the
by abrookewood 2y ago
This is the bit I found curious: "adding a small amount of random latency to requests to storage servers counter-intuitively reduced the average latency and the outliers due to the smoothing effect it has on the network".
Can anyone explain why?
- wmf 2y agoSynchronized network traffic can cause incast or other buffer overflows.
- refibrillator 2y agoYeah jitter is generally used to mitigate “thundering herd” type problems because it reduces the peak load by spreading it out over time.
- abrookewood 2y agoThanks to both of you - makes sense