Re:YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views
by pbhjpbhj on Monday July 15, 2019 @06:16AM
(#20439413)
Not really being serious: Are we inadvertent being hooked into an attempted YouTube DoS by resource exhaustion?
It works go something like: System transcodes when demand is applied; normally demand misses 90% of videos; demand surely focuses only on unprocessed videos; 'attack' diverts resources to processing videos that would otherwise have never required processing.
It works go something like: System transcodes when demand is applied; normally demand misses 90% of videos; demand surely focuses only on unprocessed videos; 'attack' diverts resources to processing videos that would otherwise have never required processing.