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Its main drawback is that resource usage is not evenly distributed in time and
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- it can overload the server at the window edges. In the previous example,
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+ it can overload the server at the window edges. In this example,
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there were 6 accepted requests between 11:00 and 12:00.
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This is more significant with bigger limits. For instance, with 5,000 requests
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- per hour, a user could make the 4,999 requests in the last minute of some
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+ per hour, a user could make 4,999 requests in the last minute of some
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hour and another 5,000 requests during the first minute of the next hour,
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making 9,999 requests in total in two minutes and possibly overloading the
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server. These periods of excessive usage are called "bursts".
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