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MFC r316342, r316358

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MFC r316342, r316358

r316342:
Consolidate random sleeps in periodic scripts

Multiple periodic scripts sleep for a random amount of time in order to
mitigate the thundering herd problem. This is bad, because the sum of
multiple uniformly distributed random variables approaches a normal
distribution, so the problem isn't mitigated as effectively as it would be
with a single sleep.

This change creates a single configurable anticongestion sleep. periodic
will only sleep if at least one script requires it, and it will never sleep
more than once per invocation. It also won't sleep if periodic was run
interactively, fixing an unrelated longstanding bug.

PR: 217055
PR: 210188
Reviewed by: cy
MFC after: 3 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10211

r316358:
Fix man page typo from r316342

Reported by: rgrimes
MFC after: 20 days
X-MFC-With: 316342

Details

Provenance
asomersAuthored on
Reviewer
cy
Differential Revision
D10211: Consolidate random sleeps in periodic scripts
Parents
rS317372: scandir(3): promote arraysz to size_t to match numitems.
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