Fedora 27 released

Re:Fedora 27 released by gtycomb on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:20AM (#15695734)

How is memory consumption on Fedora 27? I am using Fedora 24. When I check with 'free' after it boots, slightly more than half a GB is used on my laptop. In any case, thanks to the team for a very fine open source OS from RedHat.

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Re:Fedora 27 released by foxhop on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:48AM (#15696005)

Try `free -m`

Linux tries to use as much memory as possible for buffers/cache. When a program requires more memory the cache is freed up automatically to be used.

Right now my laptop is using 2G and has 1242 "free" but as you can see the buffer's cache count toward available memory.

                  total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:           7678        2089        1242         307        4346        4963
    Swap:          3711           0        3711

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