Old pc faster than ecent

[Dave Howorth]

Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> Even if the swap is used, he writes that only 145 of his 256 MB of RAM
> are used. I guess that the system pushed something unused into swap to
> have more room for buffer caches and the like.

Nobody has mentioned video memory. Does this laptop use shared video
memory? And if so, how much? It could be that 'only' 145 is already
bigger than 256.

Cheers, Dave