I had ubuntu 15.04 installed but its support ends at january and i dont have that much bandwidth and money to do a upgrade every 9 months so i turned back to 14.04 upgraded it to 14.04.3 but i have a problem now before my machine recognized 5.7 GB of ram but now it sees 5.2 GB of ram i ran a memtest for 30 minutes pass 1 with 0 errors but why is this sudden decrease in recognized memory should i be alarmed ?
#free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 5375 1941 3433 181 62 796
-/+ buffers/cache: 1082 4293
Swap: 975 0 975
#top
top - 12:48:21 up 14 min, 3 users, load average: 0.72, 0.73, 0.45
Tasks: 206 total, 1 running, 204 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
%Cpu(s): 5.4 us, 1.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 93.2 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0
KiB Mem: 5504452 total, 1993312 used, 3511140 free, 64328 buffers
KiB Swap: 999420 total, 0 used, 999420 free. 820112 cached Me
#grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 5504452 kB
#vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu-----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
1 0 0 3392356 65764 863000 0 0 133 28 165 920 6 1 90 3 0
#free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 5375 1941 3433 181 62 796
-/+ buffers/cache: 1082 4293
Swap: 975 0 975
#top
top - 12:48:21 up 14 min, 3 users, load average: 0.72, 0.73, 0.45
Tasks: 206 total, 1 running, 204 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
%Cpu(s): 5.4 us, 1.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 93.2 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0
KiB Mem: 5504452 total, 1993312 used, 3511140 free, 64328 buffers
KiB Swap: 999420 total, 0 used, 999420 free. 820112 cached Me
#grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 5504452 kB
#vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu-----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
1 0 0 3392356 65764 863000 0 0 133 28 165 920 6 1 90 3 0