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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!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 19:33:32 GMT Organization: BuffNET Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4bf16c$eq6@buffnet2.buffnet.net> References: <4b7tf3$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? A drive (physical) : Also, why are people saying that huge amounts of RAM, like 48MB or more : are needed? A full feed and lots of users.