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Subject: Re: Anyone using ccd (FreeBSD disk striper) for news
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> Quoth Nate Williams on Mon, 26 August:
> : > What I want is a solution which postpones the writes until hell freezes
> : > over.  Or, better yet, doesn't do them at all.
> : 
> : Use MFS for your news spool partition. :)
> 
> Assuming I have a few gig of ram, what about swapping?

If you can afford a few gig of RAM, you can affort a few hundred meg more to
avoid swapping.

... JG