Re: [Discuss] disappearing memory

2017-01-04 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Laura Conrad wrote: > > My system has been running really slow lately, and I have been swearing > at firefox and websites that load 200 ads before showing any content. > > But then I noticed that I was using only 4G of memory, and I knew I had

Re: [Discuss] disappearing memory

2017-01-03 Thread Tom Metro
Laura Conrad wrote: > memtest...sees [8G]... But top and /proc/meminfo only see 4. > > I'm suspecting that something about the install got screwed up when I > updated from 14.04LTS to 16.04LTS. I'm not aware of a software setting in Linux that would cause RAM not to be seen (other than some

Re: [Discuss] disappearing memory

2017-01-03 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 04:17:27PM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: > > My system has been running really slow lately, and I have been swearing > at firefox and websites that load 200 ads before showing any content. > > But then I noticed that I was using only 4G of memory, and I knew I had > more