What's happening with 16.04 & 16.10? 100% of RAM being used by nothing!

[Peter Silva]

that sounds really odd.  I have several laptops on 16.04, and no such
problem at all.   You already know about htop... hmm...

cat /proc/meminfo ?



On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ
<thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 5 October 2016 at 21:37, Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Guys,
>>
>>  Something is happening with 3 Ubuntu Desktops that I have, 2 are 16.04, 1
>> is 16.10.
>>
>>  Right after booting the machine, before even login into Unity via
>> lightdm, I type "control + alt + f2" to login via console and.... 100% of my
>> RAM is being used!
>>
>>  But nothing is really using it!
>>
>>  Where did my RAM went to?
>>
>>  It is not lightdm or the GUI environment, I disable it by running
>> "systemctl disable lightdm" and rebooted the desktop, right after login in,
>> the RAM is all occupied.
>>
>>  When I boot into the rescue mode, I can see that my RAM is free, normal
>> boot, it is 100% occupied!
>>
>>  * Rescue mode 127M being used:
>>
>>  http://imgur.com/a/I4jmj
>>
>>  * Normal boot (31016M being used!!!):
>>
>>  http://imgur.com/a/BnllE
>>
>>  I'm seeing exactly the same problems in 3 different computers!
>>
>>  It is also, not systemd, I booted using Upstart, same results.
>>
>>  Looks like that 16.10 is much worse than 16.04, I've just updated my
>> Macbook Pro from 16.04, system is so slow that it is unusable, can't browse
>> google.ca, for example... Feels like a 586.
>>
>>  I'll try to boot a Linux kernel from Trusty (3.XX), on Xenial, to see if
>> it better behaves.
>>
>>  Any clue? Something is terrible wrong here...    :-/
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Thiago
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> BTW, here is htop showing that my RAM is 100% being used by nothing!
>
> http://imgur.com/a/1nKkL
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