October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
1152 pages
26h 41m
English
INN doesn't impose too many hardware requirements; most Linux-capable hardware is sufficient to run INN. If you do download a lot of newsgroup postings, however, slow processors will be affected. Because INN often works in the background, your foreground tasks get slower while INN crunches away in the background. This is usually not a problem with 80486 or better CPUs running Red Hat Linux.
There are no extra RAM requirements for INN, although the more RAM, the better, to avoid swapping. If you download only a dozen newsgroups a day, Linux needs no extra RAM. You should have swap space allocated on your system as a RAM overflow, but there is no need to expand swap space just for INN unless the existing swap ...
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