[Discuss] disappearing memory

[dsr at randomstring.org (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 than that.
> 
> I looked at the sales slip, and it has 8G.  I ran memtest, and it sees
> two chips of 4G each.  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.  It looks like I'm running a 64 bit
> kernel:
> 
> uname -a
> Linux sackbut 4.4.0-57-generic #78-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 9 23:50:32 UTC
> 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Is it possible that the system got bumped, and one stick of RAM
is loose? Try pulling them both out and reseating them.

-dsr-