# State Overhead

> The degree of extra state a consumer must retain to deduplicate or order messages.

Record: `lex:state-overhead`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Execution Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/execution-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-state-overhead

## category

- [Event Messaging Async](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/event-messaging-async.md)

## referenced-by

- [Idempotent Consumer](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/idempotent-consumer.md)