Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:21:32 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: "Joel M. Baldwin" <qumqats@outel.org> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Typhoon? (was: newsgroup server recommendation) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10012192216290.13072-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <3A3FB528.3EB42BDC@outel.org>
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Joel M. Baldwin wrote: > Disk drive space is cheaper than CPU power. The stuff that takes up > most > of the space on your spool won't compress much anyway. I don't know what planet you are living on, but good quality, high-speed reliable and large disk storage systems are expensive. CPU power is cheap, and much easier to upgrade too. Since binaries are usually uuencoded, they will compress about 20%. That gives you about 80GB more space on a 400GB spool. Plus compression reduces the overall IO throughput by an equivelant amount. The bigger the spool, the more compression works in your favour. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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