Is getting 20 requests per second on a 36 core machine with 60G RAM good? Asking for a friend

@thattommyhall what are the requests doing, simulating nuclear explosions or something?

@samnewman inserting records into a database. The database is not on mars.

@thattommyhall I assume you have a web scale database, right?

@samnewman DB is keeping up, constant 20 req/s load, CPU goes from 6% to 100% on each node process in ~30 mins.