Subtract cached and free from total to get actual usage
Htop shows visually though with cached as yellow or so
I think you are using about 30 gb ram.
Honestly, apart from firefox, what are you running? Does that include vms?
I have 8GiB ram(7.1 usable) and uses like 1.8gb on idle and about 5-6.5gb on my personal highest usage
This site says Linux calls cached RAM “free” but in my screen shot it’s definitely being shown as “used”. I guess this is a choice of this app?
Most likely, try running
htoportop(can’t remember which is which) in a terminal.Well
topcurrently shows:MiB Mem : 64076.1 total, 2630.3 free, 51614.1 used, 34046.9 buff/cache MiB Swap: 4096.0 total, 2.3 free, 4093.7 used. 12462.0 avail MemWhile the “Mission Center” app shows:
Subtract cached and free from total to get actual usage Htop shows visually though with cached as yellow or so I think you are using about 30 gb ram.
Honestly, apart from firefox, what are you running? Does that include vms? I have 8GiB ram(7.1 usable) and uses like 1.8gb on idle and about 5-6.5gb on my personal highest usage
free -mplease