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Vaquita marina

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Registered: 2021-05-19

Posts: 4

5.8gb(8gb)

I have 8gb of ram, but in system preferences (kdeplasma) it shows only 5.8gb

sudo lshw -short -c memory
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H/W path                Device  Class          Description
==========================================================
/0/0                            memory         64KiB BIOS
/0/26                           memory         8GiB System Memory
/0/26/0                         memory         [empty]
/0/26/1                         memory         [empty]
/0/26/2                         memory         [empty]
/0/26/3                         memory         8GiB DIMM DDR4 Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered) 2666 MHz (0,4 ns)
/0/28                           memory         384KiB L1 cache
/0/29                           memory         2MiB L2 cache
/0/2a                           memory         4MiB L3 cache

free -lh
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           5,8Gi       2,3Gi       2,6Gi        33Mi       979Mi       3,2Gi
Low:           5,8Gi       3,2Gi       2,6Gi
High:             0B          0B          0B
Swap:          4,0Gi          0B       4,0Gi

Last edited by Vaquita marina (2021-05-19 21:56:00)

V1del

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Re: 5.8gb(8gb)

If you have an integrated graphics card it will reserve a chunk of the RAM to use as video memory, so this could indeed be normal, look through dmesg, the exact reserved amount should be listed somewhere.

Vaquita marina

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Registered: 2021-05-19

Posts: 4

Re: 5.8gb(8gb)

If you have an integrated graphics card it will reserve a chunk of the RAM to use as video memory, so this could indeed be normal, look through dmesg, the exact reserved amount should be listed somewhere.

Thank you