Re: netnews at 115Kbps via satellite

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From: Michael Dillon
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 00:00

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In article <48g8si$1p1@crash.microserve.net>,
Dave Ratcliffe <dave@frackit.com> wrote:
>dane@sonic.net (Dane Jasper) wrote:
>
>>John Core (johncore@frackit.com) wrote:
>>: >totally designed for SPEED, SPEED, SPEED.  It is going to be a real
>>: >memory PIG, and will probably require at least 32MB of RAM to run
>>: >effectively.
>>
>>32 megs of ram is nothing for news - our news server has 96 megs to handle
>>about 12 days of news.
>
>Somebody has to ask this:
>
>What does the amount of RAM in a server have to do with how many days
>worth of news you retain in the spool? 

The size of the history file affects the size of the history index 
(history.dir) and this is kept in RAM (or swap). Obviously, RAM is better.

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From: michael@okjunc.junction.net (Michael Dillon)
Subject: Re: netnews at 115Kbps via satellite
Date: 1995/11/19
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