30.5GiB / 31.3 GiB ram usage problem

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Hi @donniedice, and welcome!

  1. Please see [HowTo] Provide System Information
  2. To me that sounds like a memory leak somewhere. Have you checked whether it’s limited to if a certain application is in use? Because, that’s my immediate suspicion.

Edit:

According to this page:

On Linux in the top process you can press < key to shift the output display sort left. By default it is sorted by the %CPU so if you press the key 4 times you will sort it by VIRT which is virtual memory size giving you your answer.

Another way to do this is:

ps -e -o pid,vsz,comm= | sort -n -k 2

should give you and output sorted by processes virtual size.

Here’s the long version:

ps --everyone --format=pid,vsz,comm= | sort --numeric-sort --key=2

Hope this helps!

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