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the3file

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Registered: 2016-10-23

Posts: 2

Strange RAM Issue

First post here, hello.

I've been searching for a while now, without luck.
My pc has 8 gigs of ram, and they're recognized. But for some reason, about 7 are not usable.

~ $ free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7859         580         829         172        6450        6843
Swap:          3814           0        3814

I have never seen this before, any ideas?

Oh, i recently moved some partitions around on my harddrive, including swap.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,433

Re: Strange RAM Issue

That's normal, a large part of your RAM is being used for file disk caches to speed up file operations if the RAM is not in use otherwise: https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

the3file

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Registered: 2016-10-23

Posts: 2

Re: Strange RAM Issue

That's normal, a large part of your RAM is being used for file disk caches to speed up file operations if the RAM is not in use otherwise: https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

Good thing I posted it here then, haha! Thanks though.

Probably should have mentioned in OP, but the ui freezes pretty often, therefore i thought it was ram.
It's most likely just some script i have running somewere.