This is a more powerful idea than it looks like at first glance. The reason is that there is often a highly non-linear and adverse impact to response time due to higher load. I have never been able to properly account for this using queuing models in a system that is not swapping, but it is definitely real.
If your rebooting processes simply wait between 0 and 5 seconds, your problems are likely to be much better. 2011/4/13 Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org> > 2) can you hold off some of the clients from the stampede? Perhaps add > a random holdoff to each of the clients before connecting, > additionally a similar random holdoff from closing the session. this > seems like a straightforward change from your client side (easy to > implement/try) but hard to tell given we don't have much insight into > what your use case is. >
