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In article <1992Dec18.135727.4601@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM> lilb@sony.compuserve.com (Bruce Lilly) writes:
>I'd appreciate it if somebody could be more specific about the
>INN memory requirements:
>a)	exactly how much is ``lots''?

INN wants to keep the entire history file in memory, all the time.
How much "lots" is depends on how much history you are keeping.

>b)	are we talking about physical RAM or virtual memory?

VM, of course.  There's no difference other than speed between RAM and
VM on any reasonably modern Unix system, anyway.  (reasonably modern
== has demand paging)

>c)	does ``fairly important'' mean that INN will crash and
>	burn if it can't malloc  more than 2.5 MB of VM (e.g.)?

I imagine it won't work if it can't malloc enough space to hold the
whole history file, although since I don't run INN I can't be sure.


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