---
type: "term"
title: "Capacity Exhaustion"
description: "Degradation or denial of service caused primarily by volume or intensity exceeding finite resources."
resource: "tlctc:term:capacity-exhaustion"
tags:
  - "glossary"
---
# Capacity Exhaustion

Degradation or denial of service caused **primarily** by volume or intensity exceeding finite resources. Resources include: bandwidth, CPU cycles, memory, storage, database connections, API quotas, thread/process pools, file handles. Maps to `#6 Flooding Attack`.

**Reference:** §4.2.2 (Global Definitions), R-FLOOD (§4.2.5)