What's happening with 16.04 & 16.10? 100% of RAM being used by nothing!

[Martinx - ジェームズ]

On 6 October 2016 at 10:55, Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 6 October 2016 at 07:22, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 06 Oct 2016 12:29:29 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>> >hi,
>> >Am Mittwoch, den 05.10.2016, 21:58 -0400 schrieb Martinx - ジェームズ:
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> BTW, here is htop showing that my RAM is 100% being used by nothing!
>> >>
>> >> http://imgur.com/a/1nKkL
>> >
>> >and if you click on the "MEM%" there (or hit shift+M) htop will
>> >actually show you what that "nothing" is by sorting by memory usage ;)
>>
>> Good point,
>>
>> which btw. works for top and atop, too, as q instead of Ctrl+C does
>> either. I don't know why I mentioned Ctrl+C in a previous mail :D.
>>
>> However, I would use top or atop instead of htop, both IMO are better
>> readable, regarding default colours and provided buffer/cache info, but
>> only top might allow to easily copy the output.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ralf
>>
>
> Aha! Thank you guys for all replies!
>
> It is not cache mem... Look what I found (thanks to Ralf):
>
> df -h
> tmpfs                     16G  241M   16G   2% /dev/shm
> tmpfs                     16G     0   16G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>
> Looks like that I found my missing 32G of ram! How to fix it?
>
> Cheers!
> Thiago
>

Oops...

df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                     16G  241M   16G   2% /dev/shm
tmpfs                     16G     0   16G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup

Looks like that it is not being used but, it is pre-allocated?
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