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
free -mandslabtopoutput.I don’t know when you had a clean boot using only 200MB, but it wasn’t in the past few years with what you’re running there.
Anyway, with half your RAM still available, things are more than fine. Make sure you have swap enabled, and you won’t get OOMKill situations that tear things down.
total used free shared buff/cache availableMem: 3354 350 3032 1 171 3004Swap: 8191 0 8191on another reboot the memory dropped back down?It’s just allocated in buff/cache. Only 350MB hard commit. You’re fine.
The buff/cache will free automatically when an application needs ram, until then it’s useful for speeding up the system.