And just to demonstrate that I'm not hallucinating, today it also did not work:
$ uname -r && free -m 3.2.0-26-generic total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 16046 2906 13139 0 121 974 -/+ buffers/cache: 1810 14236 Swap: 0 0 0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021289 Title: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic (Ubuntu 12.04) does not last 8GB of memory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1021289/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs