Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 23:37:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu> To: Ben Black <black@MR.Net> Cc: "Richie P. Bandales" <richieb@unet.net.ph>, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: news server Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960807233031.14646B-100000@fubar.cs.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960807235922.17259A-100000@galileo>
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On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Ben Black wrote: > groups several times per day for this very reason. also, news machines > serving lots of news need lots of RAM. lots meaning 64MB or up. all of > ours have 128MB, and i know of numerous sites with a lot more. While we're on a performance note...With the way news comes through a pipe, it is better to stripe a series of 2 or 4 GB drives rather than buy the largest drive you can find. It is a more expensive option, but the performance gain is usually worth it. - Justin J. Ashworth -- CS Student - Montana State University --- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU -- ashworth@cs.montana.edu - http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth
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