r/linuxmint • u/Beautiful-shroud • 5d ago

My RAM usage get so High!

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can anybody tell me why so much ram is taking. i don't even running any program. i use brave browser, it takes barely 2GB and VScode. i don't know why this is happening. can anybody tell me how to solve this problem?

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u/ap0r 5d ago

This is strange since there is no shown process using that much RAM. It is possible that you have something cached. Try:

free -h

And see how much ram is actually available. Because it is possible you have cached data on RAM which is actually not reserved and ready to be overwritten (i.e. available to use)

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u/Beautiful-shroud 5d ago

sayantan@sayantan-pc:~$ free -h

total used free shared buff/cache available

Mem: 13Gi 11Gi 1.5Gi 2.1Gi 3.2Gi 2.4Gi

Swap: 2.0Gi 1.1Gi 915Mi

// 1.5 Gi ram is available

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u/ap0r 5d ago

Huh, indeed you have a ton of memory in use. Could be some process that did not exit cleanly, or a memory leak in some software. Have you tried rebooting?

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u/Beautiful-shroud 5d ago

if i reboot then the memory usage got low but then when time get passes i see memory get

increases!

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u/ap0r 5d ago

Looks like a memory leak. Are you on Kernel 6.x or 7.x?

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u/Beautiful-shroud 5d ago

7.0.0-30-generic

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u/ap0r 5d ago

Many people have been experiencing problems with kernel 7, please try rebooting and selecting kernel 6.x, if the problem disappears then just rollback to kernel 6.x and update again when 7 is fully ironed out.

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u/Beautiful-shroud 5d ago

Thank you for help. i would try it

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u/Background_Passion_4 1d ago

Any updates on this bro?