[tlinux-users:07501] Re: Anybody have any luck with....

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>I heard of "twice the RAM" to be allocated for swap as a thumbs rule.
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That was true in the days when ram was very expensive and a "well 
equipped" machine would ship 32
 or 64MB installed and large swap spaces were necessary. These days a 
laptop or desktop that is configured
 to use more than 512 MB swap is wasting space.

>Can you explain where you locate the "efficiency of the system and its
>security" to be supported by partitioning? Well, you have *one* drive
>and having more than one partition seems not to be accelerating my
>system that much. For security reasons though- it's obvious.
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The best way to understand the concept is to look at Microsoft which 
usually uses one large partition -- C:\.
In their case, if the desired information is not in the cache, it may be 
necessary for the system to search the whole
and somteimes very fragmented drive for the required data. Contrast this 
with Linux, where all the user data is in
/home and all the application data is in /usr/bin, and you can see how 
the system efficiency is increased by the
lower seek times available in Linux.

HTH

John