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On Saturday 25 March 2006 04:42, Mike Meyer wrote:
> One thing: 1m is a bit small for modern systems. Or for not-so-modern
> systems. Since nothing else is running, you might as well use all the
> memory you've got, or as big as you can get a process to be. 128m or
> more is perfectly reasonable.

It won't go any faster..

In a modern system the CPU is so much faster than the disk than anything ab=
ove=20
about 16k would be enough.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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