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thundering herd

noun

Definitions

  1. The undesirable situation where a large number of processes waiting for an event are…

    The undesirable situation where a large number of processes waiting for an event are awoken whenever the event occurs, and then engage in a conflict over which process handles the event.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for thundering herd. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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