Re: >60gb of reserved memory??

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...