From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 16 04:29:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA00664 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 04:29:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [195.89.149.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA00658; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 04:29:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@iii.co.uk) From: nik@iii.co.uk Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08572; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 12:29:45 GMT Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA01869; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 12:29:09 GMT Message-ID: <19980316122909.59397@iii.co.uk> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 12:29:09 +0000 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: spork , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jfieber@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Upgrade 2.2.5-RELEASE to 2.2-STABLE. References: <19980316122209.54942@iii.co.uk> <7315.890051203@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: <7315.890051203@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:26:43AM -0800 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:26:43AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:18:05AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Disk is cheap? > > > > > > It's not a question of disk, it's a question of being able to actually > > > create the archive on anything less than an ftp.cdrom.com class > > > machine. :) > > > > Build 'em on freefall and scp them over? > > When I said ftp.cdrom.com-class machine, I really meant it. The > memory requirements of MHonArc when indexing truly large mailing lists > runs far beyond what's on freefall. You need at least 512MB of memory > and several GB of swap space just to do freebsd-hackers and if you > tried a really large list like -questions, you'd probably need several > GB of memory and a dedicated 4GB swap drive. Ouch. I knew it was big, but I didn't realise it was that big. . . :-( OTOH, maybe later versions have improved in this area. I'll investigate. N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message