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Comment by nosefrog

I don't understand your comment. A google data center is much larger than an ntp server, but it's obviously not infinitely larger. As you know, if it was infinite capacity, then there would be no need for load balancing or load shedding.

And of course, load shedding low priority traffic is still a partial outage, it's just a less bad outage than load shedding high priority traffic. It does not fix lack of capacity, but it significantly lessens the negative effects of it.

parent nosefrog 2 months ago

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