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Computing | Thundering herd problem Scheduler thrashing. This can happen under Unix when you have a number of processes that are waiting on a single event. When that event (a connection to the web server, say) happens, every process which could possibly handle the event is awakened. In the end, only one of those processes will actually be able to do the work, but, in the meantime, all the others wake up and contend for CPU time before being put back to sleep. Thus the system thrashes briefly while a herd of processes thunders through. If this starts to happen many times per second, the performance impact can be significant. Source: Jargon File. |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 48 55 4E 44 45 52 49 4E 47 48 45 52 44 50 52 4F 42 4C 45 4D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001000 01010101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01001000 01000101 01010010 01000100 00100000 01010000 01010010 01001111 01000010 01001100 01000101 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T H U N D E R I N G   H E R D   P R O B L E M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0048 0055 004E 0044 0045 0052 0049 004E 0047 0048 0045 0052 0044 0050 0052 004F 0042 004C 0045 004D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54425548383952434841242395238250524936463947 |
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