the RAM output of screenfetch
is much larger than that of system monitor
, and Info Center
says that I have a big hard disk cache and a small Appdata and my available RAM is only < 2GB
What is the real size of my available RAM?
the RAM output of screenfetch
is much larger than that of system monitor
, and Info Center
says that I have a big hard disk cache and a small Appdata and my available RAM is only < 2GB
What is the real size of my available RAM?
(base) [19:53:38] firestar:~ $ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7881 1877 3894 975 2110 4766
Swap: 0 0 0
Why is used
here much smaller than shared + buff/cache
and used + free
much smaller than total
?
Memory that is | You’d call it | Linux calls it |
---|---|---|
used by applications | Used | Used |
used, but can be made available | Free (or Available) | Used (and Available) |
not used for anything | Free | Free |
And does Microsoft’d call it what ‘You’d call it’? I am wondering which saves the more avaliable RAM.
What does the terminology have to do with how much free memory you have?
Somehow I just knew this link would be here.
It’s not like Windows where the disk cache forcefully occupies the RAM, don’t worry
The disk cache in Arch/Manjaro especially, gets immediately freed when RAM is requested. Treat it as being empty.