[tlinux-users:07504] Re: Anyone having any luck with....

> I heard of "twice the RAM" to be allocated for swap as a thumbs rule.
> Well I have two swaps, where one is reserved for software suspend.


you don't have to do that for software suspend you know, but i guess
works...  I've heard of problems where you cant suspend because you have
some unmanaged ram used up from some crazy or impropperly terminated
programs, and it prevents you from hibernating. My friend wrote a short C
program ram which wastes ram (pushes random data into ram to push the
important stuff into swap) and eventually makes you able to suspend again...

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.



On a single HD system, it makes your system neater, distributes the data
across the drive more evenly, and if you run reiserfs it makes the fs make
new trees for the partitions which hypothetically should make searches
faster (traversing shorter, neater trees). Where it does make a difference
though is, for example, if you run 2 drives: 1 ide (large) and 1 sata
(considerably smaller) (or SCSI or something, in any case a faster drive),
you would obviously want to put partitions that are accessed the most on the
faster drive, for example: swap, var, usr(opt) should be on the sata drive,
while your home, tmp and boot can reside on the ide one because they are not
used as much, the performance should be noticeable if you do it right, vs
having the sata space added to home or something...