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> >Lesson #1: YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MUCH RAM IN A NEWS SERVER :-)
> >(ok, well, if you have 20GB of disk and 10GB of RAM, I might argue you
> >were approaching having enough RAM).
> 
> Or, approaching bankruptcy...  ;-)

Maybe not, at today's RAM prices.  Under $1000 for 128MB RAM?  There's
no excuse any longer not to fill these machines up to capacity.

... JG