\_ SMTP quoth Mike Starke on 3/18/2003 09:13 as having spake thusly: \_ \_ Wow, I had no idea folks are using that much. Again, is this \_ typical advice for the "average user"? I consider myself just \_ an average user, and when I look at the output of "free" I have always \_ seen a big fat "0" under the used section for swap. Ha. Lucky. I've got 512 real and ~1G swap. Right *now* (there was a recent hw addition, so it's not full like normal :-) it's running 501/74. Usually it's 500+/300+. Cause: two full xsessions one usually mozilla + maybe a few apps, the other full bore web development. Unrelatedly, is it bad when your monitor suddently decides to readjust itself and has occasional sporadic 30 pix high side-side fuzzes? Thought so. David If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record. -Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman