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 Add some System Memory to be shared with the GPU in Linux? [closed]
I have switched from Windows 10 to linux mint 21.1 I tried playing GTA 5 on lutris (wine emulation) however the game is almost unplayable on linux as big parts of the map will not load because of my ...
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Issue with loading system after RAM upgrade
I was trying to upgrade RAM for my Acer Swift 3 laptop(Ubuntu 20.04). It has 8 gb RAM(2 - 4gb sticks) which is expandable up to 12 gb. So, I added 8 gb stick with the same specs and removed one of 4 ...
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PTRACE_PEEKTEXT ptrace: Input/ouput error
I try to read the values from memory with using PTRACE_PEEKDATA.
To find the memory address of specific line I am using with objdump -
objdump --dwarf=decodedline ./exe_filename
and got the output:
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MariaDB killed by OOM Killer every couple days
my MariaDB server is being killed every couple days.
× mariadb.service - MariaDB 10.6.12 database server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS consuming high CPU and RAM on HP EliteBook x360 1040 G7
I am experiencing an issue with my HP EliteBook x360 1040 G7 that's running Ubuntu 22.04. For the past few days my PC has been consuming high amounts of CPU and RAM, causing it to overheat and display ...
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Two conditions in if statment
I'm struggling in if statment
I want the message "The system is highly utilized" pops whenever the memory usage or cpu usage exceeds 70%, now i tried the following 2 conditions in if ...
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Ubuntu is very slow on VM
I recently upgraded my RAM from 4GB to 8GB on a 1TB Core i3 HP laptop. The assigned base memory of Motherboard on the VM is 4MB. I just found out that my Ubuntu is now slower than before. Could it be ...
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Memory intensive process getting killed before swap memory is full
I have a very memory intensive Java program to run, at first it was giving heap out of memory error so I kept in increasing the heap size along with the swap partition (I only have 32 GBs of RAM and I ...
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How to monitor cpu and memory usage?
How to write script monitoring cpu and memory usage then prints a warning when usage is 70% (red warning)?
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cpuUsage=$(top -bn1 | awk '/Cpu/ { print $2}')
memUsage=$(free -m | awk '/Mem/{print $3}...
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Unbuntu 18.04 full disk does not boot
I downloaded a docker file using sudo and the file filled my disk. Obviously I made a mistake. Now ubuntu does not boot. I only have a dark screen with a message saying :
"UBUNTU: clean 3232039/...
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ETH Validator problem every cca 24h Out of Memory: Killed process 855 (Nethermind.runn)
I'm new and not so good with Ubuntu linux... :( please for help in this matter
I'm runing ETH Validator on NUC 12th Gen i7 /32GB / m.2 2TB for validator /ssd 500gb for Windows 11 Pro system.... ...
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Considerations to upgrade memory RAM with Ubuntu already installed. Correct procedure post-upgrade
I have a HP Pavilion g4-2368la with Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 with 8GB of RAM, now according with the following official specs of HP:
HP Pavilion g4-2368la Notebook PC Product Specifications
The laptop ...
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macPro1,1 - ubuntu 22.04 only sees ~2GB memory, memtest sees all 8GB
Any tips on what could be wrong?
The machine has 8GB of RAM
memtest runs fine, tests and passes all 8GB
But...
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all report 1,9GB ram as system memory
BUT... lshw sees the ram sticks.
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using ubuntu from a memory stick [duplicate]
When using Ubuntu from a memory stick is there any way to keep your settings and also not have to put in your wfi password each time?
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RAM usage by integrated graphics
I have a ThinkpadP14s gen2 with AMD Ryzen 7 pro 5850u with radeon graphics × 16, 16GB RAM and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. System monitor detects only 12.4GB of RAM, so i thought it's because of integrated ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 having reccuring deadlock freezes when working with a huge part of my RAM being in use (kernel 6.0.0 and 6.2.7) [duplicate]
I am working on a Windows-Ubuntu dual boot laptop, mainly using Ubuntu 22.04 for my studies.
In the recent month I was working on a full stack Spring-Boot-Angular web application in IntelliJ and faced ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 amd64 doesn't detect all my RAM
I have one ChannelA-DIMM0 Micron 4 GB RAM Stick on my notebook. The bios and Windows 10 correctly identifies my ram as being 4096 MB, however Ubuntu only detects 3.7 GB. What could possibly be the ...
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How to increase memory due to RAM on Ubuntu 18.04 without BIOS
I want to increase memory due to RAM on Ubuntu 18.04 without BIOS
Without BIOS, since I can’t enter the Advanced BIOS in any way
As far as I know, although I don’t have a discrete video card, but ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Memory Leak
Over the course of a few days, I see the RAM Memory usage keeps going up and up. For example, I have 32 GB of RAM. System Monitor shows over 27 GB used, but when I look at Processes there is way less ...
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Very weird memory use [duplicate]
out of nowhere my ubuntu 22.00 complained that it's memory was full. After some investigation I came across something really, really weird. Potentially worring.
I listed the use of the various dirs in ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS freezes and is very unstable
When I enter certain web pages, for example pluralsight, it freezes to the point of having to force quit to close the browser, also when a page is loading a lot, it still freezes. I have tried with ...
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Gnome-shell uses more than 2GB when idle, with gnome calendar found in error logs
I found that whenever I leave my laptop idle for a while (no suspend because of Caffeine)it gets stuck and I need to force reboot the system by the power button. I tried disabling all the startup ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 High RAM usage
I have a Linux VM that has 8 GB RAM. This is a screenshot of htop which includes all system information (tasks,services). There's no application using too much RAM when looking at the PIDs, but the ...
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Memory Problems with Ubuntu 22.04 after upgrading packages
I upgraded (just packages via apt update && apt upgrade) my ubuntu 22.04 system this morning.
Since then I have problems with the memory. I have 24 GB RAM installed in my HP Notebook. Ubuntu ...
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Where is my 800MB of RAM gone? Ubuntu is not detecting all my memory
I am a bit confused about my 800mb out of 2gb ram gone ?
I already test the following command,
sudo dmidecode | grep Size | grep MB
Size: 2048 Mar
free -h
Type
total
used
free
shared
buff/cache
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Is there memory latency checker for Ubuntu 22.04 on M1 chip?
I installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as a virtual machine on my MacBook with an M1 chip. Is there any memory latency checker for it? I tried Intel memory latency checker, but it needs msr-tools which doesn't ...
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Ubuntu won't map all physical memory
I have 589 Gb of physical memory but Ubuntu will only map 64Gb. e.g.
free -h -t
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 62Gi 1.0Gi ...
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Physical installed RAM is 6GB, but 4GB only is used by Ubuntu 22.04 as well as by Windows 7
My machine has 6GB of physical installed RAM 2x2GB + 2x1GB, but 4GB only is available by Ubuntu 22.04 as well as by Windows 7.
launching dmidecode I can see:
Memory Controller Information
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Maximum ...
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My RAM is recognized but system doesn't use all of it
I've installed 16GB of RAM on my computer. It seems to have issue in free memory and used memory. Please see the picture below.
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How to determine what is the reason for force closing applications?
I'm relatively new to ubuntu and I've done a lot of googling and I can't seem to figure out the issue. So hopefully someone here can help me diagnose.
I have a desktop computer running ubuntu (22.04.1 ...
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After Power_On booted os ubuntu occurs black screen
I had an IdeaPad S145 of lenovo with Windows. For last 2 years I am using OS ubuntu boot. Now the computer volume partition didn't have enough memory to install more packages, so I tried to ...
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Java -dauto=true high memory
I have a Minecraft server. and my server always crashes, 16GB RAM. When I check htop there is another process running like the one in the picture. and When it's been killed they appear again.
How do I ...
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Trying to create a custom RAM-backed Ubuntu Live USB with optional persistence
I've been racking my brain trying to figure out the best way to do this. It might sound a bit confusing, so let me explain the "why" first.
I already have a Linux live USB stick (on a high-...
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Why does the sum of my processes RAM usage not match the total? [duplicate]
When I look in gnome system monitor after a fresh boot, it says I am using 2.1 gb of RAM.
When I go into the processes tab, and sum the memory usage of all of the processes, it only totals to about ...
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how to clear crontab ubuntu cache memory
I started my server and configured the server without cPanel or direct admin.
And to run queues in Laravel, I need to run cron, so I wrote the desired command in cron and everything works fine.
Until ...
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20.04 CPU soft lock on insmod
I am running 20.04 on a Dell XPS 9315. I have noticed some strange freezes with my machine where the laptop slows to a halt for a minute and them comes back to life. It happens in frequently enough ...
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OOM keeps killing VirtualBox
For the past few weeks I've had a serious problem. The Out Of Memory killer of my Ubuntu host keeps killing my VirtualBox session (a Win10 instance). I've assigned only 3Gb to Win10 and there's 16Gb ...
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RAM not detected correctly
I just installed Ubuntu 22.10 in my laptop with 8 GB of RAM. I was doing some tests to test the performance of the pc when I notice that Ubuntu see only 6.7 GB instead of 8, and I don't understand why....
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Boot errors (error: out of memory)
I’m trying to go back to Linux from windows after some viruses. I was able to download and use the live cd of Ubuntu with no problems (a few messages popped up, but I got no errors once up and running)...
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS freezes few times per hour and very unstable
Title shows the problem.Brand-new install. I selected minimal install because I don't need libre office. I only installed gpart, testdisk, edge beta, htop and discord.
Fresh install nothing installed ...
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18.04.6 LTS 5.4.0-132 kernel reserving 30GB memory
I recently upgraded my kernel version from 5.4.0-131 to 5.4.0-132. I noticed some lagging behavior after this upgrade, and when I checked my memory usage with free -h, it was reporting a total of 2.2G....
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Memory usage - Get the correct number from Termnial
When I use "gnome-system-monitor" it reports 600mb or more used memory. But I just can't get the same result in the terminal. How can i get the same result?
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System with 1.25 TB memory OS only seeing 1.00 TB ram
I have a System with 1.25 TB of ram the Mother board sees it , lshw see's it , but only 1.0 TB is useable, Is there a kernel Parameter I need to recognize more memory ?
It is an Asus Mother board ...
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High memory usage that cannot be traced to a service or application
In Ubuntu 22.04 I am experiencing a strange issue with memory. I can't seem to find out why my memory usage is as high as it is. When I boot my laptop memory usage is as expected, but over time ...
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How do I interpret the +1 offset in free -m on Linux terminal console?
Well, I made a mistake with my first post of this question and I'm pretty sure that I've figured this problem out; however, I love to get feedback from other programmers who may have more direct ...
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Enable 1GB Huge Pages on ubuntu 20.04 failed using `echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages`
I try to enable 1GB Huge Pages on Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 using echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages with the root user account, but I can't write to /sys/kernel/mm/...
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faster tmpfs with large page size
I'm trying to use some sort of ramdisk using tmpfs on a system with about 1TB of system memory.
However, there is a problem that the speed of reading and writing files to memory is less than 100MB/s, ...
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Virtual Machine doesn't use all RAM allocated to it
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 64bit on oracle virtual machine. I am trying to run a physical simulation and I need a lot of RAM for that. I allocated the virtual machine 8GB RAM at the beginning (the host ...
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Instalation of Ubuntu in Virutal box 6.0 memory error
I have been using Ubuntu for some time. I am trying to install Ubuntu Virtual box. During installation I am getting an error that you din't have enough memory. I am not sure why I am getting this ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.5 Freezes often and is slow
I have Ubuntu 20.04.5 on Lenovo V-14. It used to freeze sometimes, when I have very many windows/tabs open but now it freezes even with not so much going on and feels generally slower. I'd very much ...
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