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Why btop lies to me about ram usage?
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Are you certain its actual ram usage and not reserved ? Usually when a program requests huge amounts of ram it is not given it until it actually writes to it. Try running
freeand check what it says.Freshly rebooted into tty and used free and used: 618876, the thing that takes the most ram is NetworkManager with 17M of ram
Ah, I accidentally read over that you used
free -m.By top 3 services do you also include any programs ? For me
htopitself already consumes 10 MB, what other processes are running ?