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I saw this the other day on my computer, then I checked and most of it was system monitor, so I think it was just a memory leak or something

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If you have steam open yea

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I don’t have steam open

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Sort the application in the bottom half of that window by memory and share the screenshot. What else is open?

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here is images of sys monitor and htop let me know if you find anything unusual https://ibb.co/RQfKNZK https://ibb.co/sRWbT94

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Could you sort the SYS monitor by “Memory” please? You have it currently sorted by “Downloaded”.

As for htop, could you hide threads? Hitting “h” should do it, IIRC.

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It is if the memory is held by the kernel for caching or buffering. Is it using an in memory swap file? If that’s even possible, I’m not sure.

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I have no idea how that GUI thing measures memory usage, but if you run top in a terminal, it’ll show free, used by programs, and buffer/cache separately.

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zram is in-memory swap, but it’s compressed/decompressed on the fly, so it shouldn’t take up a ton of room, and certainly not at idle.

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No

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