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leaky bucket counter

leaky bucket counter definition - computer

A fault detection technique that adds "1" to a counter for each operation taken and periodically decrements the counter to keep it from overflowing. If the operation were to occur more times than normal within a short time period, the counter would overflow, causing an alert to be generated. See leaky bucket and fault isolation.



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