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Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: big, fast, etc, was is Vax addressing sane today Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 20:42:31 +0000 Organization: Rocksolid Light Message-ID: <66de463d1acf9a1985c08b07de64e583@www.novabbs.org> References: <vbd6b9$g147$1@dont-email.me> <2024Sep11.113204@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <vbsh3q$3n09p$1@dont-email.me> <vbtqib$2sce$2@dont-email.me> <vbvhs3$2std$1@gal.iecc.com> <20240913122217.00002a21@yahoo.com> <801077e8cf1d28d825ca6e42c5e541bd@www.novabbs.org> <20240914221751.00005511@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2070456"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="65wTazMNTleAJDh/pRqmKE7ADni/0wesT78+pyiDW8A"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Posting-User: ac58ceb75ea22753186dae54d967fed894c3dce8 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$6UCINoZ3324aqVNUaRfzsOqLnHAG5iCss6m0204txGchXvRqflzU2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Bytes: 2308 Lines: 28 On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 19:17:51 +0000, Michael S wrote: > On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 17:05:35 +0000 > mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) wrote: > >> On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 9:22:17 +0000, Michael S wrote: >> >>> >>> How many transactions per minute does world's biggest company need >>> at peak hours? Is not this number small relatively to capabilities >>> of even 15 y.o. dual-Xeon server with few dozens of spinning rust >>> disks? >> >> A SWAG:: >> >> 8B people in the world: 1/3rd sleeping, 1/3rd working, 1/3rd relaxing. >> >> So we have only 3B potential transactions, and a single person will >> not average more than 1 transaction every 15 minutes over an hour. >> >> So: 3B/15 = 200M T/m > > I don't know about you, but I personally don't book flights 8 hours per > day. Even less so in the biggest company in the world, which, I > suppose, does not account for more tha 5-7% of world's flights. An number for which total number of transactions of all kinds world wide will not be exceeded by a total population of 8B people. {Not just airline, but every transaction over the whole world.}