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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.wwa.com!buffnet2.buffnet.net!buffnet7.buffnet.net!garyb From: garyb@buffnet.net (Gary Bacchetti) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Spindles? Date: 22 Dec 1995 19:29:05 GMT Organization: BuffNET Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4bf0u1$bdf@buffnet2.buffnet.net> References: <4b7tf3$si3@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: buffnet7.buffnet.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Doug Lerner (doug@gol.com) wrote: : What's all this I hear about "spindles" in the discussion on running a : news server? : What is a spindle? : Also, why are people saying that huge amounts of RAM, like 48MB or more : are needed? : I have been running my news server (albeit just a few dozens of groups : and less than a week for expire) on my 16MB RAM DX4 machine with a : single partition 1GB SCSI disk for months now and have not noticed any : problems. : Is the reason I am not having problems because I am doing things on such : a small scale? : Comments regarding scale versus needed memory and so on would be greatly : appreciated. : Thanks! : Doug : Suginami, Tokyo --