Possibly related:

screen shot of memory usage by app, showing Firefox using over 18GB of RAM

I also don’t understand why every chat app needs 1GB of RAM to itself.

  • @miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    It’s already been explained elsewhere, but the cache can be free, as needed - that’s how linux works.
    There’s 57+ GB available ram, yet.

    • @Dave@lemmy.nzOP
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      11 year ago

      Yip, got that now. I misunderstood, as it’s different to Windows, which shows cached memory as free since it’s available to apps as needed.

      • @Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de
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        11 year ago

        You could probably configure your system monitor to show available memory - that is memory available given that cache can be dropped - rather than free memory that should always be as close to zero as possible.