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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
May. 27, 2016
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Alexandre Drobychev, San Mateo, CA (US);
Alexander Kesselman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
George Datuashvili, Cupertino, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The various embodiments described herein include methods, systems, and devices for managing load in a distributed storage system. In one aspect, a method is performed at a first instance server in the distributed storage system, the first instance server having memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The method includes: (i) issuing a first plurality of requests to a second instance server; (ii) obtaining one or more messages from the second instance server in response to the first plurality of requests, the messages indicating a utilization rate of the second instance server; (iii) determining a transaction rate limit for the second instance server based on the utilization rate of the second instance server; and (iv) issuing a second plurality of requests to the second instance server, where the second plurality of requests are issued at a rate no greater than the transaction rate limit.