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NatalieMojoHost · 01-03-2019, 10:54 AM

The deal with Linux is: it will try to use all of the RAM in the system for speeding up the filesystem and other things. That's what the buf/cache is.

The shortest answer is - you have 79GB available and 43GB hard in-use, but Linux is taking another 65GB and using it to slightly speed up your system in other ways.

If another process needs that memory, say MySQL or Elasticsearch, it's able to pull it out of that buffer/cache pool and away from the filesystem. But it will pull it from the 16GB free first.

Hope this helps clear things up for you.

01-03-2019, 10:54 AM
NatalieMojoHost Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 1,472	The deal with Linux is: it will try to use all of the RAM in the system for speeding up the filesystem and other things. That's what the buf/cache is. The shortest answer is - you have 79GB available and 43GB hard in-use, but Linux is taking another 65GB and using it to slightly speed up your system in other ways. If another process needs that memory, say MySQL or Elasticsearch, it's able to pull it out of that buffer/cache pool and away from the filesystem. But it will pull it from the 16GB free first. Hope this helps clear things up for you. __________________ MojoHost.COM \| natalie at mojohost dot com \| Skype natalie.ac \| Telegram @znatalie. Since 1999: 70 Adult Industry awards for Best Hosting Company and professional excellence.