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Update production-checklist.md: bit/byte units
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michaelklishin committed Feb 19, 2024
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factor.

The following (intentionally oversimplified) formula can be used to compute the **minimum amount of bandwidth**
that must be available to cluster nodes, in bytes per second:
that must be available to cluster nodes, in bits per second:

<pre class="lang-ini">
MR * MS * 110% * 8
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* 110%: accounts for message properties, protocol metadata, and other data transferred
* 8: bits per byte

For example, with a message rate (`MR`) of 20K per second and 6 kiB message payloads (`MS`):
For example, with a message rate (`MR`) of 20K per second and 6 KB message payloads (`MS`):

<pre class="lang-ini">
20K * 6 kiB * 110% * 8 = 20000 * 6000 * 1.1 * 8 = 1.056 (gigabit/second)
20K * 6 KB * 110% * 8 bit/B = 20000 * 6000 * 1.1 * 8 = 1.056 (gigabit/second)
</pre>

With the above inputs, cluster nodes must have network links with throughput of at least 1.056 gigabit per second.
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