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A burst on the feed · Part 1 of 4
A feed handler processes market-data messages on one core at a fixed 400 ns each, a capacity of 2.5 million messages a second. Messages normally arrive at 2 million a second into an unbounded queue, which is empty before any burst.
What is the core’s utilisation at the normal arrival rate, in per cent?
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