Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:39:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: michaelv@MindBender.serv.net (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INN history file and disk I/O Message-ID: <199609171639.LAA07494@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199609171632.JAA25400@MindBender.serv.net> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at Sep 17, 96 09:32:12 am
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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! I know people that have paid $51,000 for their news operations :-) It is not that much of a stretch... but somebody has to show me a MB that can handle it first ;-) ... JG
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