I also have no experience, but my guess is that when you are running normally, you want to share the bandwidth of a server fairly between all clients. When you'

I also have no experience, but my guess is that when you are running normally, you want to share the bandwidth of a server fairly between all clients. When you've just accidentally rebooted all servers, you want to do it completely unfairly - so that instead of 10 computers taking an hour to download something, the first takes 6 minutes, the second takes 12 minutes etc. This allows at least some of the servers to get started and your infrastructure to start getting back online. I.e. you want to change from round robin scheduling to shortest job first scheduling (which gives the minimum average waiting time).