This is from a fresh boot of the system, except sshd I have not started anything else. ram consumption used to be just 126-200 mb now it has jumped so significantly that I am concerned I might have unnecessarily bloated my system:
I intend to use the system as a local server with an optional fully featured WM(Hyprland which is installed, but this screenshot was taken before it was loaded) for occasional use.
Ram conservation is a top priority and I would like to know if such a big jump in usage is normal or are there is something wrong with my system config
Why do you care so much about memory usage?
Unused RAM is wasted RAM.
It’s apparently jumped by almost a third of all of their available RAM. That’s pretty significant.
I meant like in general..
I do agree it's worth investigating if it happens again. My best guess so far would be some kind of data written to a tmpfs. That'd explain it not being associated with a particular process, yet counting towards actual used RAM.
Not really. Doesn't sound like they are having any problems.
I said it was significant, not that they were having problems.
If they're not having problems then why investigate?