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From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
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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