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From: Joe Lee <joelee@col.com.hk>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: INN history file and disk I/O
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On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Joe Greco wrote:

> > >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
> 

But i don't think you can put more than 4GB memory to a i386 arch PC.