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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I get not wanting bloated programs but only using a small portiom of your RAM isn't a goal to aim for.

If you're on Linux, The kernel is likely using all available RAM. It uses that space to store the page cache because reading from RAM is faster than reading from disk.

You could have all of that RAM go unused if you wanted, but your system would suffer.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

On my Linux system it caches about 4 gig of stuff, the rest of RAM not used by apps is totally unused. No issues at all