[tlinux-users:07687] Re: A65 performance

John McGregor wrote:
>>
>>
>> Sorry, I was wondering how can I improve the graphic performance on a 
>> A65, no gl stuff, just how to make the aplications refresh faster. I 
>> am running ubuntu 5.10 and kde, any suggestions? thanks.
>>
> 
> The best, most direct way to get a performance boost of this nature is 
> to add more RAM to your machine.
> The video card in laptops grabs system memory for its own use and as a 
> result can cause quite a performance drain
> on the OS. IE, if you have a 128 MB video card in a machine that has 512 
> MB ram installed, you will only have 384 MB
> available for all other operations.
> 

Are you sure about this? I have a NVIDIA GeForce4 and I am almost sure 
that it doesn't use any of my RAM (I have only 256 MB).

Also, you are assuming that he has problems with RAM but he doesn't 
mention nothing of that sort. As long as you are not swapping 
frequently, you may have 100% memory usage and your computer is fine. 
(Unused RAM is wasted money).

Cheers,

	Manuel.

		
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