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Is this not the thundering herd problem?

As I understand it yes, but I think the "Micheal Jackson problem" is a better name.

It's a cute name but there is existing Research that relates to this issue which calls it "the thundering herd problem" so I would recommend the one you can actually search for without problems.

Who?

> Is this not the thundering herd problem?

There's a wikipedia article on the thundering herd problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem

The article needs a little love, though.

That was Tim Starling:

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=PoolCounter...

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Tim_Starling_(WMF)

American Idol caused widespread rearchitecting of SMSGW/SMSC. Fun times; voting was a very distributed DoS.