[Discuss] disappearing memory

[bogstad at pobox.com (Bill Bogstad)]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Laura Conrad <lconrad at laymusic.org> 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.
>.....
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Do you have integrated graphics in your computer or a separate graphics chip?
With integrated graphics, the system grabs some memory from main memory for
exclusive use by the graphics system.  I'm not sure how that would
affect meminfo output
and it would probably depend on whether your BIOS grabbed the memory or the
Linux kernel/X server did.

Bill Bogstad