alt Hacker NewsTx for the breakdown. I will play around with it later on my windows machine.
But isn't it crazy how we throw out so much memory just because of random buffers? It feels wrong to me
Tx for the breakdown. I will play around with it later on my windows machine.
But isn't it crazy how we throw out so much memory just because of random buffers? It feels wrong to me
As pointed out below, quite a lot of that isn't in RAM - see "working set".
There's a common noob complaint about "Linux using all my RAM!" where people are confused about the headline free/buffers numbers. If there's a reasonable chance data could be used again soon it's better to leave it in RAM; if the RAM is needed for something else, the current contents will get paged out. Having a chunk of RAM be genuinely unallocated to anything is doing nothing for you.