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Yes and no. If that memory isn't being used and other things need the memory then the OS will very quickly dump it into swap, and as it's never being touched t
by scrapheap 2y ago
Yes and no.
If that memory isn't being used and other things need the memory then the OS will very quickly dump it into swap, and as it's never being touched the OS will never need to bring it back in to physical memory. So while it's allocated it doesn't tie up the physical RAM.