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		lsb on March 11, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why HN is slow lately Extrapolating from the memory-growth graph, how much time would a 16GB ram machine buy you?

jwilliams on March 11, 2009 [–]

I'd have thought that most of HN's traffic is on the front page, and it's associated comments. I could well be wrong - But given this I'd have thought 2GB was plenty, and wasn't the bottleneck.

jwilliams on March 12, 2009 | [–]

Ok maybe not: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512801

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