Comment on What Is Your RAM Usage on macOS? Share Your Workflow and Use CaseparentComments−emptiestplace1yNo, this is ridiculous - all modern operating systems use 'unused' RAM for disk cache.−jasomill1yAs an example: with ripgrep searching the entire (500 GB) C: drive for a fixed string, Task Manager reports: CPU: 61% 2.49 GHz Memory: 10.3/48.0 (21%) Disk 0 (C:): SSD 100% In use (Compressed): 10.1 GB (0 MB) Available: 37.7 GB Hardware reserved: 1.0 MB Committed: 8.9/48.8 GB Cached: 37.9 GB Paged pool: 2.0 GB Non-paged pool: 979 MB Observe that “Available” ≅ “Cached”.The system is a VM with 48 GB RAM and an 800 MB pagefile running Windows 11 (and lots of background processes: Emacs, Tailscale, sshd, WSL, NVIDIA and Adobe shovelware, etc.).
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No, this is ridiculous - all modern operating systems use 'unused' RAM for disk cache.
As an example: with ripgrep searching the entire (500 GB) C: drive for a fixed string, Task Manager reports:
Observe that “Available” ≅ “Cached”.The system is a VM with 48 GB RAM and an 800 MB pagefile running Windows 11 (and lots of background processes: Emacs, Tailscale, sshd, WSL, NVIDIA and Adobe shovelware, etc.).