Recently specifically after ubuntu updates, and after messing around with installing/uninstalling virtual box on ubuntu, my machine(XPS 13 9360) starter reporting only 1.4gb(which was not the case before) of ram.
free -m output:
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1421 753 87 177 580 237
Swap: 2047 983 1064
neofetch output:
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS x86_64
Host: XPS 13 9360
Kernel: 5.4.0-86-generic
Uptime: 14 mins
Packages: 2863 (dpkg), 10 (brew), 23 (snap)
Shell: zsh 5.8
Resolution: 1920x1080
DE: Plasma
WM: KWin
WM Theme: Layan
Theme: Layan [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: Tela [Plasma], Tela [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
CPU: Intel i7-8550U (8) @ 4.000GHz
GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620
Memory: 922MiB / 1421MiB
BIOS reports 16gb, dual booting into windows reports also 16gb.
Is there anything I could do to fix this? Or should I reinstall? Help would be appreciated as stuff is crashing due to lack of ram linux is seeing.
EDIT:
sudo dmidecode -t memory output:
# dmidecode 3.2
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.0.0 present.
Handle 0x0038, DMI type 16, 23 bytes
Physical Memory Array
Location: System Board Or Motherboard
Use: System Memory
Error Correction Type: None
Maximum Capacity: 16 GB
Error Information Handle: Not Provided
Number Of Devices: 2
Handle 0x0039, DMI type 17, 40 bytes
Memory Device
Array Handle: 0x0038
Error Information Handle: Not Provided
Total Width: 64 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
Size: 8192 MB
Form Factor: Row Of Chips
Set: None
Locator: System Board Memory
Bank Locator: Not Specified
Type: LPDDR3
Type Detail: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered)
Speed: 2133 MT/s
Manufacturer: SK Hynix
Serial Number: Not Specified
Asset Tag: Not Specified
Part Number: H9CCNNNCLGALAR-NVD
Rank: 2
Configured Memory Speed: 2133 MT/s
Minimum Voltage: 1.25 V
Maximum Voltage: 1.25 V
Configured Voltage: 1.2 V
Handle 0x003A, DMI type 17, 40 bytes
Memory Device
Array Handle: 0x0038
Error Information Handle: Not Provided
Total Width: 64 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
Size: 8192 MB
Form Factor: Row Of Chips
Set: None
Locator: System Board Memory
Bank Locator: Not Specified
Type: LPDDR3
Type Detail: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered)
Speed: 2133 MT/s
Manufacturer: SK Hynix
Serial Number: Not Specified
Asset Tag: Not Specified
Part Number: H9CCNNNCLGALAR-NVD
Rank: 2
Configured Memory Speed: 2133 MT/s
Minimum Voltage: 1.25 V
Maximum Voltage: 1.25 V
Configured Voltage: 1.2 V
EDIT 2:
Did a little more digging and found that command dmesg | grep Memory returns failure to map memory:
[ 0.109763] Memory: 1364404K/16498176K available (14339K kernel code, 2400K rwdata, 5016K rodata, 2736K init, 4964K bss, 15133772K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[ 0.151677] efi: memattr: Failed to map EFI Memory Attributes table @ 0x6e0a5018
[ 0.167205] x86/mm: Memory block size: 128MB
Which can be linked to:
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