This object is the threshold used to clear the most severe, level-3 congestion state for this specific association. Since this is the largest of the three abate thresholds, an association that has reached its worst congestion tier needs the biggest queue drain of all three levels before recovering even partially, making persistent level-3 congestion the clearest sign that a specific peer relationship is significantly overloaded rather than just briefly busy. An association whose queue depth rarely falls below this level-3 abate threshold is chronically at its worst congestion tier, a strong candidate for needing more bandwidth or fewer concurrent streams to that one peer.