[Foundation-l] Wikimedia crosses 10Gbit/sec

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> Today Wikimedia's world-wide five-minute-average transmission rate
>> crossed 10gbit/sec for the first time ever, as far as I know. This
>> peak rate was achieved while serving roughly 91,725 requests per
>> second.
>
> The rate can't be that rough if we already know it to 5 significant
> digits. :-)

Accuracy != Precision.  91725 is indeed precise, but it was low by
about 9k req/sec, as Domas mentioned, since the count I used excluded
a new server.  I expected that kind of error (though not that much of
one!), thus the 'roughly'. My apologies for the untrimmed figures.