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Re:Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRippe... by phkahler on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:53PM (#25961562)
>> I remember WhatsApp used to operate its 500M user with only a dozen of large FreeBSD boxes.

With 1TB of RAM you can have 256 bytes for every person on earth live in memory. With SSD either as virtual memory or keeping an index in RAM, you can do meaningful work in real time, probably as fast as the network will allow.

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Re:Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRippe... by zie on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:24PM (#25966023)
My math doesn't compute with yours:

depending on how you define a TB(memory tends to favour the latter definition, but YMMV):

1,000,000,000,000 / 7.8billion = 128.21 bytes per human.

1,099,511,627,776 / 7.8billion = 140.96 bytes per human.

population source via Wikipedia.

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Re:Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRippe... by swader999 on Friday January 29, 2021 @09:45PM (#25965507)
Faster then they can type!
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