Questions tagged [ram]
Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of computer data storage. Today, it takes the form of integrated circuits that allow stored data to be accessed in any order with a worst case performance of constant time.
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How to limit Firefox RAM in Linux (Ubuntu) consumption without killing the process?
For a very long time I can't find a solution to the problem of controlling the use of RAM by Firefox (and other programs) so that it works like the Firemin utility works in Windows, i.e. so that the ...
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Too much RAM is being used even if the system is moderately ideal in Ubuntu 20.4?
We are using Ubuntu 20.4
System Configurations: 240GB SSD, 8 GB RAM, Intel® Core™ i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10GHz × 4
we are using a few software like Google Chrome, Vs code and Notepad ++. We have noticed that ...
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Laptop becomes slow
I had attached my laptop specifications. I use chromium browser, microsoft teams for work. In an 8 hrs of work, my laptop slowly becomes slower by around 3 - 4hrs of work.
When I restart my laptop, it ...
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Excessive video buffering on a minimal laptop running Ubuntu 18.04
I have a Dell Latitude E7240 on which I installed Ubuntu 18.04. It has 8Gb RAM and a 16Gb mSATA SSD which is 2/3rds full with the OS. My problem is too much video buffering, which may be due to a ...
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Is startup of Ubuntu Server faster than Ubuntu Desktop?
I mainly have to use the terminal, but the problem is that my Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop startup is slow. It takes time to load after Ubuntu and manufacturer's logo shows up.
Does Ubuntu Server consume ...
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System freezes when RAM limit reached, doesn't use swap
I have a 16GB RAM system and whenever I hit the limit of RAM the whole system freezes even the mouse cursor starts to become jittery until it doesn't move at all. Keyboard, mouse, nothing. So I am ...
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Ubuntu 21.04 using huge amounts of RAM just after sign-in
For some reason Ubuntu is using a lot of RAM on my PC. I ran the free -h command just after logging in and before opening any application. This is what I got:
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Getting aggregate memory usage of a Linux process?
How is it possible to aggregate memory usage of a Linux process and all its children in human readable format?
I tried this link and even using cat /proc/$pid/status but the latter had 18GB of ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Emergency mode on boot
My Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't boot into the OS, giving this image after Grub. I do not remember making any kernel updates or updating any disk partition recently.
I've tried the following.
I have a dual ...
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how to Identify which process is causing computer to freeze?
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While it didn't answer my original question, since increasing the swap to 4G I don't experience any more computer freezes, so I accepted the answer
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As @heyynema suggested, I ran the ...
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Disk space has dissapeared - after installing Ubuntu desktop
Disc space
I solved this with the help of this post moving data
Installing all applications on a SSD disk and putting all files on HDD disk
I installed Ubuntu from a USB stick and my disc-space ...
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SWAP usage too high after upgrading RAM
I had upgraded the ram on my Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS from 16 GB to 32 GB. Things seemed to had worked fine, i.e., the machine ran and cat /proc/meminfo showed 32 GB of ram. Today the machine seemed ...
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RAM has become very slow low write speed and high latency
I have identified an issue with memory speeds and latency on my server. I am renting this server from OVH and one of their requirements before getting the RAM replaced is
To launch an intervention, ...
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Is there a utility to monitor memory for processes over time?
This question has been asked in different ways over time. Specifically, given current versions, I'd like to chart memory usage of processes over time, ideally in comparison with other processes.
Use ...
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Gnome Shell running, with no one logged into it?
Ubuntu 18.04, logged out of GUI, accessed system via webmin and see an awful lot of memory being consumed by Gnome. Shouldn't this end when all users are logged out of the GUI? Can I kill all this ...
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Missing RAM problem
I have a Ryzen 5950x with 32GB and 64GB. In both cases, Ubuntu is reporting 2-3GB less. BIOS is up to date.
It would be great to claim those 2-3GB memory back and put them to a good use. The CPU does ...
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How to reduce ubuntu 18.04 ram usage
A time ago i was on Ubuntu 16.04 i tried to update to 18.04 .
The PC just freezes and i turned it off.
When i turned it on, the screen showed 18.04 .
And the session manager was now gdm but it didn't ...
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Ram updated from 4gb to 8gb, it only shows 4gb of ram in my ubuntu & 8gb of ram in BIOS
Product- Notebook 15-g002ax (HP 15 notebook laptop) 64bit
OS- Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Memory shows- 3.3 GiB
amd processor, REV: 22CE-100
New ram: Hynix HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB, 8192 MB @ 800MHz (SODIMM DDR3)
I ...
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Cached Memory Takes all the memory
I've switched to Ubuntu just a couple of months ago. Some days ago, I found out that the system is storing cache in memory which is occupying a lot of space and although I'm getting the benefit of ...
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How to infer top command VSZ & Resident memory numbers active usage / free?
I have two vm's one with 2vCPU , 4GB RAM and other with 4vCPU and 8GB RAM
Now I have installed / ran the same application(k8s pods) with same memory , cpu allocations , requests , limits on both the ...
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Ubuntu crashes when run out of RAM
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 on a DELL server with 128GB of RAM
When RAM usage reaches 100%, the system freezes immediately. I can move the coursor for a couple of seconds and then have to reboot the ...
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Increasing usable RAM with an external harddrive
I am trying to run a simulation and need more RAM for a big array. I'm at about 24 GB and need about 100 GB.
I have an external hard drive with 2 TB of memory, so is there a way I can use this to ...
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How to auto move swap back to RAM?
My original problem with swap(piness) was that it was swapping too often (even with swappiness=1! ).
I also thought 0 would turn off the swappiness - which was a misconception,
Swap still works even ...
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ubuntu freeze do i need more ram?
I am currently running a dual boot setup for ubuntu 18.04 and windows 10. While building some code on ubuntu(along with several internet tabs opened), my computer will freeze and lag to the point i ...
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4 GB RAM not detectable by BIOS and the OS
I had a 4 GB RAM in the Ubuntu system, then I bought again a 4 GB RAM, but this time the new RAM is not detectable by OS as well as BIOS.
My motherboard supports 8 GB RAM 800/1067 MHz RAM
old ram ->...
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Slow server work high iowait, raid0, cpu 100%, ram is only 20% loaded
There is a server
CPU ⇢ 1x Xeon E-2236
RAM ⇢ 32 GB
HDD ⇢ 4x 10TB HDD.
The disks are assigned in a RAID0 array. This is a streaming server (nginx) designed to distribute large video files. The ...
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Error opening the cache
The error message is:
E:Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/ro.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_groovy-updates_In release(1),E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened....
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Automatically manage swap / memory
When filling up all memory and swap my experience the most recent years has been that:
Windows and macOS go "oh, let's fix that for you" and then presumably increase the swap size. Opening ...
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Finding a specific text phrase in all system files
Trying to find a specific text phrase in all system files. A terrible way to debug but I have no clue where the mistake is and at this point I do not care whether it takes a day to debug.
I ran
grep -...
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Multiple instances of process for same apps
I have recently seen a spike in my RAM usage and when I checked in System monitor, I see that there are a lot of instances of process for Google chrome and Visual studio code. I had only opened 1 ...
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Can I combine Zram with Zswap without double compression?
I currently have most of my swap on Zram, since I don't want to wear my SSD excessively.
BUT, I do have a swap partition left over from when the system was installed, and I just lowered the priority ...
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Memory usage problems on Ubuntu 20.10
It's a few months that my pc is running Ubuntu 20.10 and I have a problem: every two/three hours my pc run out of memory and all my attemps to run oom killer fails in many cases, the problem is that ...
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How can I access something like Task Manager in Windows to kill processes that are hogging memory? [duplicate]
When I was using three windows in Chromium and two windows in Firefox my system suddenly hung while I was switching between them.
In Windows I used to open task manager and close a specific window ...
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Programs output CPU and RAM usage in plots (if possible)
I want to know how much of RAM my pipeline consumed for each step. However, the program need hour to completed and I cannot stay in my computer for tracking the usage on thousands of files. I found no ...
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memory upgrade is causing dual monitor problems
I added memory (4GB to a 4GB system), and now I have problems using 2 monitors. Ubuntu works fine with one monitor (built in laptop), but when I plug in the external monitor, the built in monitor ...
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Ubuntu 20.04, 16 GB ram installed, only 8 GB detected
I got 16 GB of RAM installed for Ubuntu 20.04 64-bit, but only 8 GB are usable. I tried to remove 1 slot of RAM and it turned out I got 12 GB available.
Is there any way for me to make the OS support ...
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Why is Ubuntu 20.04 server is freezing with heavy workload due to memory getting full and not freed while Ubuntu 16.04 is working smoothly
I am running Ubuntu on two the same EC2 cloud instances on AWS server with 1CPU and 1GB RAM. First instance is running Ubuntu 20.04 and the second is running Ubuntu 16.04
I did installation of apache2 ...
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Improving Ubuntu speed and stability on VirtualBox running on a Mac
Good day--
I just started running Ubuntu 20.04.2 via VirtualBox 6.1.22 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with a 3.5 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, 16 GB of RAM, and macOS 11.3.1. I've allocated 11.5 GB of RAM, ...
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OS isnt detecting all of my RAM
Im kind of a newbie and sorry if this got answered alot already but i installed ubuntu first time on a new setup and it seems that it only uses 8,3 GB from my 16 GB.
using ubuntu 21.04
But Ubuntu ...
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high RAM usage on ubuntu desktop
I'm using an Ubuntu desktop 20.04 LTS.
I'm not running any concurrent applications at the time.
and I'm using R and python and a jupyter notebook in my computer.
today while running jupyter notebook I ...
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What is RAM Cache?
I noticed this once I installed Ubuntu 20.10. There is 2.1GiB of memory used as "Cache".
I know the CPU, GPU and hard disk's have a cache. I know of swap memory, but this is the first time ...
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Cannot install pytorch on AWS Ubuntu 18.04 even with 3 GiB of ram
I'm trying to install torch for an ML model on an 18.04 Ubuntu t2 medium instance, and it gives me the following error:
pip3 install torch
Collecting torch Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/...
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why is my memory cache so big?
right now I have only a browser tab running on my laptop, but when I open system monitor, in memory section, It shows:
3.2 GiB (23.2%) of 13.7
Cache 6.1 GiB
why is my Cache so big? is it usual?,
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System memory is lower than installed
I have a relatively old laptop, Dell Inspiron 5559 with 16 GiB of RAM. It had Windows 10 installed and it showed the whole amount of RAM but I decided to install ubuntu 64 bit on it. I installed 20.04,...
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Can we clear memory cache in Ubuntu
In my Ubuntu 20.04 I see 8.7 GB Memory cache in system monitor. Can I clear this, what is the best way to do so?
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18.04 Swap Size Large than RAM
Something happened after a recent update. I have 5GB RAM installed (one 4GB card, one 1GB) on a Toshiba L750D. After a recent update, it started running super slow. I noticed it is only seeing 708....
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Help in increasing swap file size
I have an existing virtual storage but it is not enough and I cannot find a solution to this problem. I want to increase my existing virtual memory size. Any help is appreciated.
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Many segmentation faults in applications after RAM upgrade
I have a Lenovo IdeaCentre 510A-15ARR on which I replaced Windows 10 Home with Kubuntu. Here is some basic info:
System: Kernel: 5.8.0-48-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.18.5
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How to check RAM channel?
How to check if my ram is dual channel or not? Is there a piece of software similar to CPU Z to check this?
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Loading Ubuntu on to old netbook running Windows XP [duplicate]
I am new to Ubuntu. I have an old Samsung netbook with a 1.6GHtz processor and only 0.99GB RAM.
Can I run last desktop version on this machine?