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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time by jared314 on Friday February 20, 2015 @10:13AM (#9080704)
StackExchange is pretty open with their hardware metrics.

The StackExchange performance site: https://stackexchange.com/performance

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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time by Someone1234 on Friday February 20, 2015 @10:57AM (#9080913)
> RAM: 48GB

Per server or in total..? Either one is believable.

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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time by zuck9 on Friday February 20, 2015 @11:14AM (#9081018)
I don't think a single server can do its task in just 5 GiB (48 GiB/9)
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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time by Moter8 on Friday February 20, 2015 @12:49PM (#9081643)
See the tagline "statistics by server"

Image: http://i.imgur.com/q1oDamy.png

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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time by Kurtz79 on Friday February 20, 2015 @11:20AM (#9081062)
It must be per server, adding RAM is really the quickest and cheapest way to improve performance.
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