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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.
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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>
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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