On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 09:13:00PM +0300, Susi Lehtola wrote:
On 06/21/2018 07:51 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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.

The joke is, the >60GB of missing memory doesn't even show up in free:

$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem:        2400708     1093732      284844      121920     1022132 957848
Swap:      62499836           0    62499836

For some reason the kernel marks it as reserved.

On 06/21/2018 07:55 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
Try installing htop ("$ sudo dnf install htop"), run it, press F6 and
select which memory item you want to sort by. That'll tell you what
process is sucking up memory.

Same goes for htop. It's showing I have 2.29G of memory.


Update: I upgraded from Fedora 27 to Fedora 28, and the same issue persists. Of course, the kernel is almost the same.

I'd try a newer kernel from the 4.17 series from the non-official
kernel repo for Fedora, just to narrow down the issue and see, whether
it's really a kernel thing:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories

I've had issues here, too, on F27, and at least one of them seems to
be gone with such a kernel:

% uname -r
4.17.2-250.vanilla.knurd.1.fc27.x86_64

HTH, and Regards.

Good luck!
Wolfgang
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