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From: "John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>
To: Phil Dier <phil@icglink.com>
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Phil,

What happens if you pull 1gb or 2gb of memory from your box?  Running
a news feed shouldn't be memory intensive and maybe you've run into a
low-mem vs. high-mem issue.  It would be an interesting test in any
case.

John