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SYSE.40:10 - Rationale

Overload is a relation between offered work, its resource cost and the available means of completion. Protecting only arrival rate or component health misses that relation. Bounded admission, separation and replay behavior preserve a meaningful task result or an honest refusal when unlimited service is impossible.