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Total time: The average length of time required for each POS client simulator
to complete its transactions
The transactions per minute can be better understood with this example. If your
in-store server is capable of handling 30 transactions per minute, and you have
ten POS devices, each POS can produce three sample transactions per minute.
The data presented here can be used as a starting point for your capacity
planning.
7.6.1 Small platform test results
This platform is a Single Intel Xeon Processor 2.8 GHz in-store server with 512
MB RAM. The initial plan was to use the ...