Medium Apply Back-of-Envelope Estimation Multiple Choice
A cache stores the hot 20% of 100M objects, each 1 KB. How much RAM is needed (with 20% overhead)?
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Answer Options
A 20 GB
B 24 GB
C 100 GB
D 120 GB
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