I must be missing something in the translation. I've maxed out motherboard RAM. From what lspci is saying it would seem it is video card memory. Is that right? If so I can't add more memory too it because it is onboard. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > > :-)~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 >> > >