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When the burst does not fit

hardA queue absorbs a burst only up to what still finishes inside the timeout. Past that: move capacity to the burst if you know when it comes, and refuse fast if you do not.

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1How big the buffer really is

Three instances behind the balancer. Each handles one request a second, one at a time, and queues up to 12. Clients give up after 10 seconds. Beyond what the three are already doing, how many extra requests can their queues hold before requests start timing out?