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.
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.