But in a clustered file system, a remote access has additional overhead due to the distributed structure.

Access to a subroutine involves additional overhead not present when data is accessed directly.

Objects often carry additional run-time overhead compared to pure functions, however.

"They don't see the business aspects of it - the additional overhead, the increased payroll," he said.

Due to the costs involved, user training and systems support are often seen as additional overheads.

There may also be additional overhead to check the argument types and convert one of them if they do not have the same type.

"But the extra business we expect should more than cover the additional overhead."

After all, the publisher has no additional overhead - the media has been paid for, so this (less processing costs) is free $$.

Average packet size is around 500 bytes so this adds some 4% additional overhead.

They usually have only a small fixed additional overhead for storing information about the size and capacity.