• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “State services” is database lookups and billing. Back in the 90’s, I supported 10k users (1.5k active at any moment) on a Pentium 3 with 512MB of Ram.

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        2 months ago

        Also the number of supported users does not scale linearly with the number of CPU cores

        US population has grown 25% from the year 2000. Other than Anti AI detection, everything worked on the hardware of 25 years ago. Single core performance has gone up more than 25% over the past 25 years.