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Abnormally high ram usage on idle (NixOS)
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How would I find this out?
Run
free -m
and look at the output. That will tell you how much memory is used by programs, how much is being used as cache, and how much is available. The memory used as cache will be freed if a program needs it.Here's the output
Are you using zfs?