opscode-cookbooks/chef-client — pull request #18 by retr0h (2012-08-19 01:19:14+00:00)
Title: Removed random splay for unique sleep number

In an effort to better deal with random sleep collisions, generating a sleep
time based off the nodes hostname. This sleep time will not change so long
as the hostname remains the same.

http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/09/14/period-pain/

Generated 5k hostnames based off the scheme c#r#.example.com.
Where c1 (c1-c1000) and r1 (r1-r5)

Generated sleep times from the hostname list mentioned above, and encountered
collisions of ~2%. This seems reasonable, and wouldn't expect it to be worse
than what was previously used.