Sticky suggestion on Linux Memory Management

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It may help if members understood how memory management on Linux actually works?

I've seen the suggestions around the 'free' command but memory management on Linux works very much differently to most people appear to believe?

However much RAM you have in your Linux system it will ALWAYS take approximately 95% available free memory to cache after program requirements are satisfied.

You can 'free' as much as you like but the memory management daemon will simply claw it back.

This applies to pretty much ALL Linux systems including satellite boxes unless they've been 'tuned' by some idiot who doesn't understand memory management!

Sorry, it's a design thing.
 
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