Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 12:29:09 +0000 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: spork <spork@super-g.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jfieber@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Upgrade 2.2.5-RELEASE to 2.2-STABLE. Message-ID: <19980316122909.59397@iii.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <7315.890051203@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:26:43AM -0800 References: <19980316122209.54942@iii.co.uk> <7315.890051203@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:26:43AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:18:05AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Disk is cheap? > > > > > > It's not a question of disk, it's a question of being able to actually > > > create the archive on anything less than an ftp.cdrom.com class > > > machine. :) > > > > Build 'em on freefall and scp them over? > > When I said ftp.cdrom.com-class machine, I really meant it. The > memory requirements of MHonArc when indexing truly large mailing lists > runs far beyond what's on freefall. You need at least 512MB of memory > and several GB of swap space just to do freebsd-hackers and if you > tried a really large list like -questions, you'd probably need several > GB of memory and a dedicated 4GB swap drive. Ouch. I knew it was big, but I didn't realise it was that big. . . :-( OTOH, maybe later versions have improved in this area. I'll investigate. N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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