The amount of Ram being used increases for no reason.

Asked by Andrew

Ok, i've been wondering why in the hell my ram usage is increasing to 200MB even with nothing on,
i boot up and im usally around 125MB-150MB, sometimes i'll open Firefox and ill be at 200MB or more,
THEN when i CLOSE firefox, im still stuck at 200MB or more...
How am i using 200MB if i Closed firefox?
my ram should go back to being low..not staying the same as if i never ended firefox..
and sometimes ill use Swap even if my memory isnt even HALF its limit..

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- (uzf) said :
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Linux holds closed programs's data in unused RAM to launch them faster, if used again. This data gets deleted if other programs need the memory space.

RAM usage of 100% is desired and usual.

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bcbc (bcbc) said :
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I've noticed similar problems on 10.10. Just running a web browser slowly consumes all memory.
Then when I try to hibernate - it fails the first time with 'insufficient memory'. If I attempt to hibernate a second time it succeeds, and when I boot again from hibernation the memory usage is minimal again - same programs running (obviously).

I don't think this is normal behaviour.

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