08-10-2021, 11:50 AM
Careful, folks.
You're looking at the output of commands which don't show how much memory has been sequestered dynamically by RaspiOS for buffers and caches. This number can increase and decrease according to internal algorithms and obscure RaspiOS settings.
Try instead, for example, the free command to get a truer picture of how much memory moOde is consuming. Here, on a 1GB RPi 4B,
Buffer space is reclaimable as processes demand more memory (aka "memory pressure"), so it's the last column which really counts.
Regards,
Kent
PS - there are options which prettify the free output in units ranging from bytes (default) to petabytes.
You're looking at the output of commands which don't show how much memory has been sequestered dynamically by RaspiOS for buffers and caches. This number can increase and decrease according to internal algorithms and obscure RaspiOS settings.
Try instead, for example, the free command to get a truer picture of how much memory moOde is consuming. Here, on a 1GB RPi 4B,
Code:
pi@moode:~ $ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 875060 109760 102620 13168 662680 691012
Swap: 0 0 0Buffer space is reclaimable as processes demand more memory (aka "memory pressure"), so it's the last column which really counts.
Regards,
Kent
PS - there are options which prettify the free output in units ranging from bytes (default) to petabytes.
