:-)~MIKE~(-: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:35 PM, coverturtle wrote: > oh. so then 'unclaimed' is synonymous with 'unused' in this case. > > Not familiar with this word usage but it makes sense. It's unused > potential CPU > power because more RAM can make a CPU much more powerful! > > Then there's swap area provided by the disk. If you don't have enough RAM, > then your CPU is constantly swapping out RAM to the disk which means that > your > "memory" is running at the speed of the disk I/O. > > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 2:20 PM, coverturtle > wrote: > >> I ran lshw>hardware and it says that I have unclaimed RAM. How do I recover it? >> >> Someone covered this before, remember? If you are running Windows with a 32bit OS, >> then you can only access about 3.5 GB of RAM. Otherwise, I wouldn't worry too much. >> If you have a lot of RAM or much more than you are using, then you will have unused >> RAM of course. >> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >