On 2020-01-28 09:49, Thomas Lohman wrote:
> 
> 
>> %Cpu(s):  0.1 us,  0.2 sy,  0.0 ni, 52.9 id, 46.5 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.2 si,  0.0 
>> st
>> KiB Mem : 29987532 total,   220092 free,   697356 used, 29070084 buff/cache
>> KiB Swap: 15138812 total, 15138812 free,        0 used. 28880936 avail Mem
> 
> It looks like your memory is being used by the Linux file cache. This is 
> typical and if the system needs the memory for something else, it will 
> use it.


Yup, agreed.  This is something that often looks alarming to people
coming from the Windows world, but in thew Unix world it is *perfectly
normal*.  Memory that you're not using is memory that isn't doing
anything for you, and if you have free memory Unix will put it to use
for something useful — caching files — until it needs it for something else.


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