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Re:The most important thing to understand about queues (2016) by cjg on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:19PM (#30607151)
The idea is that it's not a sudden hard failure. Instead only a few things fail which helps in two ways: reducing the load by discarding some work and alerting that the system is beginning to be overloaded.
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Re:The most important thing to understand about queues (2016) by gpderetta on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @07:56AM (#30613912)
this is similar to Random Early Detection [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_early_detection

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Re:The most important thing to understand about queues (2016) by cjg on Friday March 11, 2022 @04:56AM (#30638136)
Yes.
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