Lenovo IdeaPad 3 14" has 8 GB of RAM, but Fedora only uses 6 GB
by banjoecommando from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5KXC5)
Hello,
I recently bought a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 14" and installed Fedora 34 on it. When I run the "free -h --si" command, however, it only reports 6 GBs of RAM being available when there should be 8 GB. "dmidecode" DOES show 8 GBs of RAM (2x4GB chips), so I'm not sure why I'm still missing 2 GB. I also booted an Arch live USB, and it also reported 6 GB.
Is this a hardware problem? If one of the RAM chips were bad, wouldn't I be missing 4 GB instead of just 2? Is it a software issue? If so, are there any packages I need to install in order to remediate this? Is this somehow a distro-specific issue? I don't have Windows installed at the moment, but I may try reinstalling it later just to see how much RAM it says is available. Before I try that, though, I'd like to hear your guys' thoughts on how I might fix this on the Linux side of things.
Thanks in advance for the help.
I recently bought a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 14" and installed Fedora 34 on it. When I run the "free -h --si" command, however, it only reports 6 GBs of RAM being available when there should be 8 GB. "dmidecode" DOES show 8 GBs of RAM (2x4GB chips), so I'm not sure why I'm still missing 2 GB. I also booted an Arch live USB, and it also reported 6 GB.
Is this a hardware problem? If one of the RAM chips were bad, wouldn't I be missing 4 GB instead of just 2? Is it a software issue? If so, are there any packages I need to install in order to remediate this? Is this somehow a distro-specific issue? I don't have Windows installed at the moment, but I may try reinstalling it later just to see how much RAM it says is available. Before I try that, though, I'd like to hear your guys' thoughts on how I might fix this on the Linux side of things.
Thanks in advance for the help.