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.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]
No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
No Let’s Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates.
(Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources.
If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)
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.
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