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Livesite by a Thousand Spikes

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Re: Livesite by a Thousand Spikes

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So, which library was sleeping for 1 second?

It is an internal cache implementation. The library writer _thought_ this codepath would never be triggered - or at least very rarely, but that was proven wrong on the new hardware.

In my uninformed opinion: 1. waiting for 1 second sounds like a hack 2. The application should be doing cache writes asynchronously as as not to affect overall server latencies