From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 17 09:32:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA21119 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:32:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [199.201.191.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA21102 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30) id JAA19824; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:32:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA25400; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:32:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609171632.JAA25400@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Joe Greco cc: petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INN history file and disk I/O In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 17 Sep 96 10:20:08 -0500. <199609171520.KAA07339@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:32:12 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >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! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------