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### Request Width
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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 "seat", one
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-unit of concurrency.
+In it, all requests have equal "width": each takes up one _unit of
+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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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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