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Re:Using load shedding to avoid overload by tome on Monday October 11, 2021 @08:56AM (#28827790)
Oh, I think I see. With a queue the failure state is that everything times out. With a stack you risk sacrificing only the oldest requests and keep the newest alive.
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Re:Using load shedding to avoid overload by lokar on Monday October 11, 2021 @10:31AM (#28828734)
And you end up not servicing some random sample that get buried in the stack before you can get to them.
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