On 07/27/2018 08:50 AM, Warren Young wrote: > This is such a common misunderstanding that it has its own web site: > https://www.linuxatemyram.com/ The misunderstanding was mostly related to an older version of "free" that included buffers/cache in the "used" column. "used" in this case does not include buffers/cache, so it should be possible to account for the used memory by examining application and kernel memory use.