On 06/21/2018 11:13 AM, 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. > > This has to be some weird kernel / BIOS bug... Can you send us the content of /proc/cmdline? Also check any RAMdisks you may have (e.g. "df -h | grep tmpfs"). See if any of them are possibly eating up RAM. I'd suspect /tmp and (possibly) your swap partition. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/XDJ4FJVE6ZLUFL4IHC5XR35NF2RUODAG/