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How to re-allocate (or increase) memory to Ubuntu 18 running as a dual boot

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I've installed ubuntu 18,04 to my laptop, and it's been running as a dual boot.

The problem is that I only allocated less than 7 GB of memory, which made this Ubuntu very slow.

As you can see, the disk of this laptop has more than 600GB.
Is it possible to allocate more memory now?

Any advice will be appreciated.

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answered 1 Year ago tialmes · Accepted Answer

As mentioned the dual-boot configuration will have nothing to do with memory usage. I'm guessing you have 8gigs of RAM installed which is plenty for most users, unless you run memory intensive apps. If you find the system is swapping a lot, then upgrade your RAM to 16gigs. The operating system (Ubuntu or Windows) can only access 6.8gigs because the rest is taken by the system for shared memory, hardware operation, and built-in graphics. My system has 32gigs but only 31.1 is usable as the other 900megs is used by the hardware in the system. This is normal.