Free Rate/Update Rate and Limit RAM usage

[LarryM]

Just upgraded my system from a very old 2 core cpu w/4G ram to an i7 with 16G ram - and I put UE and its database on an SSD. UE itself starts INCREDIBLY fast now!

The whole process of loading/unloading/reading/writing a news group is faster, but not by the amount I would have thought. What configuration changes can I tweak in UE to max it out? What do these "Free Rate" and "Update Rate" boxes do? They are currently set to 3 and 15 respectively (I assume they're the default values). ...and what about the Limit RAM usage? I tried to set it to 4G, but it keeps setting itself back to 300G.

Thanks, Larry

[LarryM]

Update - I hadn't noticed the note on "Limit RAM usage" telling me that it would go in effect after the restart of UE. It is much faster after bumping to 300M.

Still, if there are any other bumps I can do...