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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!xmission!sverige.pengar.com!user From: chad@pengar.com (Chad Leigh) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Minimum machine for nameservice? Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:21:12 -0600 Organization: Pengar Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <chad-2310960921120001@sverige.pengar.com> References: <chad-1710962353430001@sverige.pengar.com> <548n0e$61f@shimon.netmedia.net.il> <54dg0h$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Dzn2rt.2y4@zorch.sf-bay.org> <54jkmf$k3o@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sverige.pengar.com In article <54jkmf$k3o@uriah.heep.sax.de>, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) wrote: > scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller) wrote: > > > > Even then, it's virtual memory, so you > > >might compensate missing RAM by swap space. > > > You definitely *do not* want to do that. named works very poorly if > > it starts to swap, due to poor locality of reference in the cached > > data. > > Even then, it's certainly that you're referring to busy name servers, > while i am writing about mostly idle servers (and the originator did > clarify that it won't be a very busy one at all). > Actually, I said it wouldn't be very busy serving people in our domains but very busy serving our domain to outsiders... Thanks for all the help! "Egghead Software", a US software chain, is having a sale on 4 meg SIMMS for $12 each after some rebates -- I'll get 2 and go from 8 to 16... best Chad