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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Why btop lies to me about ram usage? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, cant attach image cause of file size, i have fresh void linux base install in tty and btop tells me i use 500-600MiB of ram but my top 3 services uses 7-25M and rest are 5>, free -m also tells me 600M but why this much with not much services?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

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 free and check what it says.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Freshly rebooted into tty and used free and used: 618876, the thing that takes the most ram is NetworkManager with 17M of ram

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Ah, I accidentally read over that you used free -m.

By top 3 services do you also include any programs ? For me htop itself already consumes 10 MB, what other processes are running ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

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