I am aware that linux does caching, HOWEVER, it didn't do it to that extent, yesterday or one day before, not sure, my btop used to display 2.5Gb of used RAM, today i turned on my computer and gazed upon 8.5Gb of used RAM on idle, just after boot, yet when i look at what processes are using ram, all of them combined only use the usual 2.5Gb, what could that be? i think it's caching, it says that 6-8Gb are cached, sure, the system isn't lagging yet, but why could it have started doing this all of a sudden? also swap is not being used AT ALL, like, people online say this is harmless, i trust them, but this is simply not a good sight, how can i get it back to normal? also "sync; echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" does NOTHIN', i did update the system yesterday, but i don't remember this happening after rebooting, please don't just tell me "just leave it that way", i'm already doing that, i just want to know why could this possibly be hapening and how can i get my usual "2.5Gb used after boot" back
#Lots of RAM used in caching all of a sudden
mystic loom
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Did you install any new programs recently?
Or enable any symlinks, daemons to run upon startup and/or in the background?
mystic loom
Did you install any new programs recently?
None significant that i remember, just like, easyeffects and at most VSC, but even with VSC closed, the system is already @ 8Gb used after booting is finished
like
as of now
this is my situation
which is very not usual
i got no games opened
not 200 tabs on firefox either
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Try running ncdu and checking out what's going on with your cache
mystic loom
FOUND IT, the cause of the problem was magick generated images buildup on /tmp
literally 6.2Gb of unused wallpaper variants were eating up me RAM
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tyvm it worked
np