Re: big, fast, etc, was is Vax addressing sane today

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:
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 9:22:17 +0000, Michael S wrote:
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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?

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A SWAG::
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8B people in the world: 1/3rd sleeping, 1/3rd working, 1/3rd relaxing.
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So we have only 3B potential transactions, and a single person will
not average more than 1 transaction every 15 minutes over an hour.
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So: 3B/15 = 200M T/m

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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.}