On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 19:05 +0300, Susi Lehtola wrote: > Dear all, > > > I just noticed a very weird problem on my workstation. Although the > machine has 64 GB of RAM installed, > > $ head -n 1 /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: 2400748 kB > > that is, only a few gigabytes are actually available. > > Unfortunately I don't have physical access to the machine, which is a HP > desktop bought last fall. According to dmesg, the model is something like > > [ 0.000000] DMI: HP HP EliteDesk 800 G3 TWR/8298, BIOS P01 Ver. 02.06 > 06/09/2017 > > Also according to dmesg, it appears that the kernel *does* see all 64 > gigs, BUT OVER 60 GB IS RESERVED MEMORY!! > > [ 0.000000] Memory: 2326720K/66985176K available (12300K kernel code, > 1568K rwdata, 3836K rodata, 2124K init, 1368K bss, 64658456K reserved, > 0K cma-reserved) > > Does anyone have any idea of what could be going on? > > I am running an up-to-date Fedora 27 x86_64 with kernel > 4.16.15-200.fc27.x86_64.--
AFAIK Fedora uses the available RAM as a) buffer space, and b) the /tmp filesystem. BTW a slightly more user-friendly way to get that info is with the free(1) command. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I3JPZZEXL5Q6P34UL26DXFW3B33QT4CU/
