> A real transaction count for a non-hypothetical large system (not
> firebird): 1.2 million database transactions per hour (8000 per second),
> 24x7.
>
> I am aware of several systems that are 4 to 8 times as heavily used as
> this particular one.
>
> That's 149 days!
>

and that's working thru one database file? not a farm?
I don't have any single piece of hardware able to keep going at that pace.
How many concurrent (unique) connections are there supporting 8000 Ts per
second?
Alan