On 26/03/2016 15:26, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 26/03/16 13:09, dennis@home wrote:
Windows caches a lot, so much so that *you* complain that it uses more
memory than a linux machine.

I have never complained about it using moire memory than anything dear

Linux must be wasting the memory if it isn't using it for cache like
windows does.

I think you mean 'Windows must be wasting the memory if it isn't using
it for cache like Linux does'.

Its rare to see any genuinely 'free' memory of any size on a linux
machine unless its just been booted

$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8108788 7631804 476984 53852 559556 4654828


8GB or RAM of which at the time of writing less than half a gig is
'free' and everything else is buffers cache or in use...



That is 1/2 a gig of wasted RAM.
It could be caching a filesystem.