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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _get_total_read_size(self):
 """How much event data to process at once."""

        if self.read_size:
            read_size = EVENT_SIZE * self.read_size
        else:
            read_size = EVENT_SIZE
        return read_size