To check what RAM memory type yo have installed (and also see other useful information about your system), do a sudo dmidecode Depending on the version of dmidecode you have installed and the hardware configuration you h[...]
By using top or htop you can find out what processes are using your resources and in what ammount. Another way to do this is by launching the following command: ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -r -k1 | more This will ou[...]
In Linux, you can clear the cache of the memory by using sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches [...]
If you want to display your memory usage in real-time, do a watch -d “free -mt” It will display used and free memory every two seconds. [...]
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