Re: where is everyone or is linux stable ?

Scott Laird (laird@pacificrim.net)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:56:25 -0800

In message <udlhg6ttdhu.fsf@m12-182-17.MIT.EDU>, Aaron M. Ucko writes:
>
>The main benefit of Usenet is that the messages are distributed across
>a large network of servers. If all the readers of linux-kernel
>pointed their news readers at a single machine, they would hose it to
>the ground.

Maybe, maybe not. Using a single server isn't optimal, by any means,
but the linux-*@vger.rutgers.edu lists are so low-volume (compared to
most of Usenet) that a news server serving them would run almost
completely out of cache, and should be able to move pretty quickly.

Hmm. It is possible to use RAID-1 between a physical drive and a big
ramdisk, and only read from RAM?

Scott