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Re:Ask HN: Better efficiency in laptops running Linux? by zaphirplane on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:13PM (#13557351)
That's no longer the case for some time
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Re:Ask HN: Better efficiency in laptops running Linux? by nsuser3 on Friday February 03, 2017 @07:38AM (#13559354)
Linux still caches stuff in RAM?..
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Re:Ask HN: Better efficiency in laptops running Linux? by emergie on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:01AM (#13559477)
yup, it still does

cat /proc/meminfo

MemTotal: 32884616 kB

MemFree: 344496 kB

MemAvailable: 20994872 kB

Buffers: 1796324 kB

Cached: 18710768 kB

SwapCached: 0 kB

Active: 12009748 kB

Inactive: 18639200 kB

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Re:Ask HN: Better efficiency in laptops running Linux? by zaphirplane on Thursday February 16, 2017 @05:29PM (#13664178)
I am taking about the windows side, it too now utilizes as much ram as you have for caches
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