Question

0

Can't find where memory is being used

rated 0 times [ 0] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 542 / 2 Years ago, wed, august 3, 2022, 5:22:59

I'm still a novice with Ubuntu, and have converted an old Toshiba L655D to use the OS. I have 3gb of memory installed, and this appears on on the GRUB memtest. But within Ubuntu, looking at free -m when running basic applications I find...

Mem: Total: 738 Used: 673 Free: 59

-/+ buffers/cache: Used: 509 Free: 229

Swap: Total: 2808 Used: 355 Free: 2453

The swap total is the only number cold to the 3000+ MB of memory I have (And I'm not sure what that means). I'm not sure how to put this memory to use. If at all possible. I saw no option in the BIOS to reallocate memory.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ×64

Toshiba L655D

AMD Athlon II P320 Dual-core ×2

Answers

Only authorized users can answer the question. Please sign in first, or register a free account.

percol

Add To Favorites

Follow

Total Points: 493

Total Questions: 116

Total Answers: 107

Location: Taiwan

Member since Mon, Sep 6, 2021

3 Years ago

percol questions

1 Unable to connect with the hotspot created on ubuntu

Thu, Sep 29, 22, 07:42, 2 Years ago

1 Find a directory with a prefix in name

Sat, Jul 16, 22, 21:00, 2 Years ago

1 Where can I download ubuntu image with 5.11.0-27-generic kernel?

Tue, Feb 14, 23, 04:14, 1 Year ago

1 Does Ubuntu Server have any special preinstalled packages

Tue, May 30, 23, 19:16, 1 Year ago

1 Bluetooth settings won't open Ubuntu 20.04

Wed, Aug 18, 21, 02:15, 3 Years ago

View All

answered 2 Years ago percol · Accepted Answer

Thank you very much for your help Ben, it's much appreciated.

After trying multiple methods, most of which resulted in an unbootable computer and an Ubuntu reinstall, I came across something. From what I can tell the line of graphics card that I use (AMD Radeon HD 4000 series) doesn´t have any supported drivers.

Section 6.1.1.1 and 6.2.1 of the link ben supplied explains that users have had little to no success using the fglrx install or an install directly from AMD´s website. The proposed workarounds also caused my computer to be unable to boot.

Because of this my memory remains so minimal that the computer is almost unusable. I´ll be returning to Windows until I can build a computer optimized for Ubuntu.