English Explanatory Dictionary

thundering herd

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

thundering herd
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