On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 rens.emmanuel@wanadoo.fr wrote:

> Additionnaly I would like to learn how to:
>
> - allocate more memory to a (slow) application

You don't. Each application gets as much space as it wants, subject to
per-process limits.

What you can do is not run so many apps at once that the system starts
swapping, but it's not certain that you are having that problem now.

> - make an alias for a directory (I did not create a dedicated
> partition for /var and it should be in the same partition as /usr
> with an alias in /)

mv /var /usr/where_var_really_is
ln -s /usr/where_var_really_is /var

Take care,

Bill