Thread: Gregg's Nearly Interminable Adventures in Linux Land
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Old 05-08-2014, 11:53 AM   #182
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You have Linux itself and the disk cache it maintains occupying RAM before you even start to load programs and do work.
Linux takes virtually all of the RAM and caches it. Then it doles it out as required. The correct way to measure actual RAM usage in Linux is after subtracting the cache.
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