in reply to Help with exponential backoff

Aside from backoffs you could make groups of clients stagger their requests. Split them up so that half the clients make requests on even minutes (0,2,4,...) and the other half on odd minutes (1,3,5,...) (maybe based on the last octet of their IP address, or something similar).

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Re^2: Help with exponential backoff
by jdtoronto (Prior) on Oct 11, 2006 at 16:15 UTC
    Not so silly either.

    The application is Perl/Tk, so by using the Tk 'after' timer event I hope I get a random distribution.

    jdtoronto

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