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I have Ubuntu 18.04 dual booted with Windows 10. Windows 10 shows full 8 GB RAM.



But in Ubuntu it shows only 6.8 GB.



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Is there any way to make it near 8 GB or is this natural?




~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7097484 1775180 3633172 67964 1689132 4994508
Swap: 1000444 0 1000444


After turning the swap area off,




~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7097484 1776700 4761256 111464 559528 4949096
Swap: 0 0 0


Output




~# dmesg | grep -i memory:
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x00087000-0x00087fff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x000a0000-0x000bffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x000c0000-0x000fffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x09b00000-0x09dfffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x09f00000-0x09f09fff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x6427a000-0x64b79fff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x6b58f000-0x6b78efff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x6b78f000-0x6d78efff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x6d78f000-0x6f78efff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x6f78f000-0x6f7fefff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x6f800000-0xafffffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xb0000000-0xf7ffffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfc000000-0xfebfffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfec01000-0xfec0ffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfec10000-0xfec10fff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfec11000-0xfed7ffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfed80000-0xfed80fff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfed81000-0xfedfffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfee01000-0xff7fffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xff800000-0xfff4ffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfff50000-0xffffffff]
[ 0.000000] Memory: 6929972K/7238032K available (12300K kernel code, 2472K rwdata, 4248K rodata, 2408K init, 2416K bss, 308060K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[ 0.039763] Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 36K
[ 1.147121] Freeing initrd memory: 54212K
[ 141.519341] Freeing unused kernel memory: 2408K
[ 153.310684] Freeing unused kernel memory: 2008K
[ 153.317976] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1896K
[ 153.869546] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 3548742 kiB
[ 153.869547] [TTM] Zone dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB

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[    0.000000] Memory: 6929972K/7238032K available (12300K kernel code, 2472K rwdata, 4248K rodata, 2408K init, 2416K bss, 308060K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)


indicates that BIOS is giving the kernel 7238032K of memory. The rest of the memory is being used by the BIOS:



8,388,608 K Total - 7,238,032 K Kernel = 1,150,576 K reserved by BIOS.



That is an unusually large amount for BIOS to reserve. You would have to look at your BIOS settings to perhaps try to figure out why.


[#6765] Tuesday, May 30, 2023, 1 Year  [reply] [flag answer]
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