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A server system having one or more processors and memory receives a request including server identifiers for one or more other server systems. After receiving the request, the server system determines whether enough other server systems have a predefined task-processing status for the request. When enough other server systems have the predefined task-processing status for the request, the server system performs a corresponding task-scheduling action that overrides a default task-scheduling policy as applied to the request. When the server system decides to perform a respective task-processing operation for the request, the server system sends a processing-status message to one or more of the other server systems indicating that the respective server system has undertaken performance of the respective task-processing operation for the request and performs the respective task-processing operation.
