Ram usage in KDE

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Hey everyone! I noticed that memory usage quite high even if i run only web browser. I checked the ‘free’ command and that’s what it said:

total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem ~16 GB ~2.5 GB ~7 GB ~15 GB ~ 7 GB ~12 GB
Swap 2 GB 0 2 GB

So my question is: is it ok that buff/cashe is so big? And does the high cache affect something?

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Yes, unused RAM is wasted RAM.

These are kernel caches/buffers btw, nothing to do with KDE.

And does the high cache affect something?

Yes, it should speed up your system… :wink:

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That is normal Linux hates wasted memory so will use it for cache. The cache will be released if a process needs it’s bit of memory.