Hello, cant attach image cause of file size, i have fresh void linux base install in tty and btop tells me i use 500-600MiB of ram but my top 3 services uses 7-25M and rest are 5>, free -m also tells me 600M but why this much with not much services?

  • ZweiEuro@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Are you certain its actual ram usage and not reserved ? Usually when a program requests huge amounts of ram it is not given it until it actually writes to it. Try running free and check what it says.

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      Freshly rebooted into tty and used free and used: 618876, the thing that takes the most ram is NetworkManager with 17M of ram