Possibly related:

screen shot of memory usage by app, showing Firefox using over 18GB of RAM

I also don’t understand why every chat app needs 1GB of RAM to itself.

  • Dave@lemmy.nzOP
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    1 day ago

    Thanks, someone else also mentioned this. Cached is considered used in Linux, where as in Windows it’s considered free since applications can use it if they need it even though it holds data.