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NicoJuicy on April 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows...

It's not exactly wsl is it? Linux considers free memory useless and uses it as cache.

https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

Weird that i didn't knew this. Couple of years ago i wasted some time to get more "free" memory on my server. Lol

Ajedi32 on April 21, 2021 | [–]

That's not really an issue under normal usage; unused memory _is_ useless. The problem is that in this case Linux has to share memory with another OS.

Dylan16807 on April 21, 2021 | [–]

Except that the cache needs to be intelligently shared or split between operating systems, and it's not. Or at least not well, as of 20H2.

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