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From: bad@ora.de (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server??
Message-ID: <DzA0qt.GK@ora.de>
Organization: O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag
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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:32:53 GMT
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le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote:
> What would seem most likely to increase performance?
> 
> Faster CPU?(would require new motherboard and SCSI controller)
> More RAM?
> More disks?
> Upgrade to 2.1.5?

If you are low on memory, get more RAM.  Since you are running C News you
should check whether expire runs out of memory.

If you aren't low on memory, get more disks.  Disks with shorter seek times
are preferred over disks with fast transfer rates.  The disk seeks are the
limiting factor.

-- 
Christoph Badura

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