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 us

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