Flutterby™! : Poisson is not a glam metal band

Sean Connor reworks a load test from a constant high load to a Poisson distributed lower load, and discovers packet loss.

Since he doesn't have comments over there, I'll posit: I've seen some interesting stuff about big cache sizes causing traffic shaping in ways that degrade less well than small cache sizes, I wonder if there's some combination of hub behaviors and router caches that's causing the intermittent stuff to get de-prioritized.