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yeq

If the requests arrive faster than the site can handle, the work queue is infinitely getting longer at a rate of the speed difference between requesting and servicing.

BestBunny

In addition to the work queue getting longer at a rate of the speed difference as mentioned by @yeq, a request rate that is much higher than the service rate can result in requests being dropped --> potentially a denial of service attack.

mario

Eventually, if requests keep arriving and the work queue does not get smaller, we will start dropping requests once the queue is full.