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Removed usage of "width", _defined_ "seat"
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content/en/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/flow-control.md

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@@ -96,13 +96,15 @@ Pods. This means that an ill-behaved Pod that floods the API server with
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requests cannot prevent leader election or actions by the built-in controllers
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### Request Width
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### Seats Occupied by a Request
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The above description of concurrency management is the baseline story.
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In it, all requests have equal "width": each takes up one _unit of
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concurrency_, which we call a "seat" because this is similar to how
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each passenger takes up one of the fixed supply of seats on a train or
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aircraft.
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In it, requests have different durations but are counted equally at
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any given moment when comparing against a priority level's concurrency
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limit. In the baseline story, each request occupies one unit of
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concurrency. The word "seat" is used to mean one unit of concurrency,
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inspired by the way each passenger on a train or aircraft takes up one
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of the fixed supply of seats.
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But some requests take up more than one seat. Some of these are **list**
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requests that the server estimates will return a large number of

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