[SR-Users] best way to cope with peaks in traffic

Gents, assuming we don't use async methods (I know, it's against fashion), eventually you'll end up in having some bottlenecks in your config... Now thanks to a lot of children you can easily work around this, a maximum of 32 children gives you already quite something, and if you use the dispatcher, you can ramp that up to quite some capacity. ;) Now, there are moments where still limits are passed, so what would be the best way to keep your system healthy? I was thinking in the direction of using a hashtable value or $var to keep track of the children in use and e.g. if 31 children are used, refuse to process the 32th request (assuming 32 children are setup). Would this be a valid strategy? Or am I overthinking? Grtz, Davy