Quote from: bozak on April 16, 2013, 05:22:37 PM

Quote from: Cogine on April 16, 2013, 04:59:04 PM

Have to love the fact though that GOX is able to handle all this traffic now.
I mean 637,359 BTC Traded in the last 24.
Hell a week ago they could not even process 200,000 in a 24hour period without crashing.
Good Signs

I'm not sure that the BTC volume traded is actually a good indicator of the trade volume that Gox is handling. When the exchange rate was higher, fewer BTC were traded, but that doesn't mean that there were fewer transcations. From an order handling perspective, the server has a much harder problem processing and matching 100 orders for .01 BTC than it does one order for 1 BTC.

Correct, MtGox can handle around 35-37 trades per second on current hardware. Once they get their new servers with the database on fast disks, this should go up to thousands. Either their exchange software is really terrible, or they have very slow/few disks at the moment for a db server