Wednesday, 4 March 2020

RAM Usage Display: Free, Cached, Used

Notes about RAM usage on computer:
  • Free RAM: 
    • The amount of RAM never been used
  • Cached RAM: 
    • The amount of RAM ever been used to load programmes, but OS doesn't want to free them, OS keeps them to avoid loading programmes from disk again.
    • When free RAM is not available, OS will throw away some of the Cache RAM to make free space for allocation.
  • Used RAM: 
    • The amount of RAM allocated to programmes, can't be used for other ones.

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