Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:3709 news.software.b:7693 comp.unix.aix:4969 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!ogicse!emory!utkcs2!ornl.gov!de5 From: de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: IBM RS/6000 unsuitable for news Message-ID: <1991May8.134629.25149@cs.utk.edu> Date: 8 May 91 13:46:29 GMT References: Sender: usenet@cs.utk.edu (USENET News Poster) Reply-To: Dave Sill Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Lines: 15 In article , halcyon!ralphs@seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims) writes: > >I'm not sure how *nix figures this kind of thing, but a check of the >size of the average news post (based on 10,000 messages online) is >~3K. This is on my MS-DOS system with an almost-full feed. The average size is less important than the size distribution. For example, if 90% of the articles are under 2k and the other 10% are very large source/binary/GIF's that bring the overall average up to 3k, then you're going to have a *lot* of wasted space with 4k blocks. -- Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov) It will be a great day when our schools have Martin Marietta Energy Systems all the money they need and the Air Force Workstation Support has to hold a bake sale to buy a new bomber.