thundering herd

2021-07-26

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When lots of processes or threads are all awaiting a single event, they can be awoken simultaneously when that even occurs. Only one process can win, but all of the processes will race to compete - hammering the computer and possibly overwhelming it.

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Thundering herd problem


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