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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.new-york.net!ritz!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: Spindles? References: <4b7tf3$si3@gol2.gol.com> Organization: Mordor International Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 05:22:51 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <DJvDM3.25o@ritz.mordor.com> Lines: 31 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? Yes, try having a few thousand alt groups. :-) Your machine will quickly start to swap and will certainly fill up your 1 gig drive. Cheers, Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451