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Re:The most important thing to understand about queues (2016) by usrbin on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @08:57AM (#30599894)
What is the purpose of cutting off the queue at a n% full? Isn't that effectively saying that the queue size is actually n% of the stated size, or am I missing detail?
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Re:The most important thing to understand about queues (2016) by bombcar on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @09:55AM (#30600551)
Perhaps "rejects new items" is the key - a web server that hits a certain percentage utilization only allow existing clients/connections/logged in users/whatever to connect; refuse new connections.
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Re:The most important thing to understand about queues (2016) by cjg on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:11PM (#30607033)
It's probabilistic.
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Re:The most important thing to understand about queues (2016) by morelisp on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @10:57AM (#30601313)
Wait until you hear about hash table capacities.
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