[nflug] AMD64 Debian 'Etch' Stability

[Cyber Source]

I've been working with pcs since Apple ll days (1986 or so) and Linux 
since Red Hat 6 days, Red Hat, since that time RH had always done the 
twice the ram method for swap. I did not have the luxury of school, all 
self taught, while raising a family and running home building business. 
Now I run a computer business full time that is almost exclusively 
Linux, that alone for 10 years. As I had explained (shortly) in my 
original post, my question was more out of curiosity regarding swap, 
because, it would seem that sometimes on "relatively" similar boxes, I 
would get different usage of ram/swap. I was wondering if the swap usage 
is related to the swap size in general, not necessarily the ram size. 
I'm fully aware of the fact that processes=ram, in case I didn't make 
that clear. I've also been a member of this LUG for about 8 years as 
well and used to hold many of the meetings in my home.
  So, now that you know a bit about me, you might see that just knowing 
theory is not good enough for me, I want to see it work in relative, 
practical instances because that's what I'll do with it.

p.s. For those that might regard this as flame, it's not intended that 
way. It wouldn't hurt for all of us to know each other better.

Ken Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 22:16 -0400, Cyber Source wrote:
>   
>> <snip> You must be a young sys-admin<snip>
>>
>> Yea, I just started doing computers last month, you'll probably see my 
>> email address here alot now......
>>
>>     
>
> Hmm, sorry about that.  Didn't mean it quite that way.  :-(
>
> Would I be making it better or worse if I were to say "You don't seem to
> be as much of a dinosaur as me."?  For me "young sys-admin" means you've
> been doing it less that 15 to 20 years...  Remember, everything is
> relative...  :-/
>
>