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The depth bars bump up during the spike, then fall back to the floor — the wait never grows.

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You'll learn

A queue is a shock absorber: it smooths short bursts without any backlog building up.

How it runs

Three workers finish three per tick; arrivals sit at three with a brief spike to five, so the queue rises a little and drains back to zero.