Slack and Queue Capacity Utilization Are Correlated

So when your system is operating at maximum capacity utilization, you don't have slack. When it isn't working at its full, you have slack.

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Zettelkasten, November 8th, 2022.

Notes

Slack is the degree of freedom. Queue Capacity Utilization is the amount of time the service process is working (not idle).

So when your system is operating at maximum capacity utilization, you don't have slack. When it isn't working at its full, you have slack.

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