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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Have you set up a News server?
Date: 14 May 1996 13:34:09 GMT
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants
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In article <4n7k6g$kuc@service2.uky.edu>,
John Soward <soward@neworder.cc.uky.edu> wrote:
> want more ram, if I want to really have 50 nntp sessions at maximum speed,  
> since it's looking like each nnrpd (inn 1.4unoff4) takes about 1.1M, innd  
> soaks up 10-30...

If you're running  2.1.0 you may want  to use the gnumalloc library instead
of the standard malloc (in the libc). It will eat less memory. 

Also install the  sharedactive patch you'll  find at the  following URL, it
will lessen the nnrpd memory comsumption. 

<URL:http//www.math.psu.edu/barr/INN.html>
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