Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:32:12 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INN history file and disk I/O Message-ID: <199609171632.JAA25400@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 17 Sep 96 10:20:08 -0500. <199609171520.KAA07339@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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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.
Oh, I agree. Definitely.
I was just referring to 10GB of RAM... Roughly $51,000 at todays
prices. Of course, about seven months ago, that would have been
closer to $275,000!
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