madthumbs@lemmy.worldM to Linuxsucks@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoUnused ram is wasted ramlemmy.worldimagemessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down114
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minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day ago“Unused RAM is wasted RAM” is a non-sense statement, because any mainstream operating system has disk caching, where non-reserved RAM is used to keep files in memory to speed up repeated access.
“Unused RAM is wasted RAM” is a non-sense statement, because any mainstream operating system has disk caching, where non-reserved RAM is used to keep files in memory to speed up repeated access.