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Date: | Wed, 12 Feb 1997 09:02:50 +0100 |
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The problem with the WIN95-L list is not that the P133 is too slow, but
that there are so many people using the WWW interface nowadays that the
box needs a RAM upgrade to be able to service all these WWW accesses plus
searches to lists with really large archives (of which WIN95-L is the
only one). This machine used to work fine with 128M before we enabled the
WWW interface on the large lists, after which we quickly had to add
another 64M. This solved the problem at first but we knew it would not
last forever and decided to upgrade the server. We waited for the box we
wanted (400MHz Alpha with 512M) to become available, and then we ordered
it. Like every new box it had a long lead time, but we did not want to
order an expensive server that was about to become obsolete. Especially
as, through some kind of marketing policy that I cannot understand, the
obsolete model was actually more expensive once you put the 512M of RAM
in it :-) We would have done that if this had been a customer list, but
this is a list that we run for free and it is the only one affected.
About a week ago it turned out that our order had been cancelled and we
had not been notified. I could tell you what I think happened to our
order exactly and which company now has our server on site while a "bug"
in the reseller's computer vaporized our order, but the bottom line is
that the server isn't there and we have placed a new order from a new and
hopefully more dependable reseller.
Meanwhile you are right that WIN95-L searches have become unbearably
slow. I have set up a mirror on another server and updated the main
win95-l.html page on PEACH to point to that machine. It may not be
lightning fast, as that machine is far from being perfect for the task
(and has other things to do as well), but at least it is usable.
None of this, incidentally, has any bearing on the LSTSRV-L peer at
PEACH, where archive searches are fast.
Eric
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