This is from a fresh boot of the system, except sshd I have not started anything else. ram consumption used to be just 126-200 mb now it has jumped so significantly that I am concerned I might have unnecessarily bloated my system:

I intend to use the system as a local server with an optional fully featured WM(Hyprland which is installed, but this screenshot was taken before it was loaded) for occasional use.

Ram conservation is a top priority and I would like to know if such a big jump in usage is normal or are there is something wrong with my system config

  • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
    111·
    6 days ago

    It’s allocated memory in the cache. It’s not used, it’s earmarked for first usage.

    This is standard memory management.

    • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
      81·
      6 days ago

      I’m pretty sure only the yellow bar on the right of that indicator is cache. Green is actually being used by processes.