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To: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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Subject: Re: Speed of 2.2.1... & "daily panics" 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Jun 1997 21:54:13 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 21:10:25 -0700
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>
>I've noticed a strange thing seems to have happened in recent 2.2.,
>uname:
>FreeBSD ponds.water.net 2.2-970510-RELENG FreeBSD 2.2-970510-RELENG #0: Fri May
>16 15:06:15 EDT 1997     rivers@lakes.water.net:/usr/src/sys-970510/compile/POND
>S  i386                                                                        
>
>My news machine is now taking more than 3 days to expire the news.
>This is a 386dx-33 with ~1.5gig of IDE space...  
>
>Version 2.1.7 would expire everything in a matter of hours,
>version 2.2-970510 on the same hardware takes days...

   How much main memory does it have?

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project