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(Gentoo)Help me reduce my boot up memory usage (lemmy.ml)

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

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This is from a fresh boot of the system, except sshd I have not started anything else. ram consumption used to be just 126-200 mb now it has jumped so significantly that I am concerned I might have unnecessarily bloated my system:

I intend to use the system as a local server with an optional fully featured WM(Hyprland which is installed, but this screenshot was taken before it was loaded) for occasional use.

Ram conservation is a top priority and I would like to know if such a big jump in usage is normal or are there is something wrong with my system config

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You can also drop cache for debugging by running something like echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop-caches

But remember that the kernel knows best

this RAM will automatically be freed up when needed and you should never run this except for debugging (or maybe benchmarking).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Rimworld mods sometimes occupy 10gb RAM after a crash/force-close. That one helps.

But don't set up a cronjob running it regularly, that causes issues.