recovering ram?

[Michael Havens]

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:35 PM, coverturtle <coverturtle at gmail.com> 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 <coverturtle at gmail.com>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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