recovering ram?

[Michael Havens]

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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> :-)~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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