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    3 days ago

    This is actual RAM used by the desktop environments that is not available for cache. That is the number he gets from top, it doesn’t include the disk cache. The DE won’t use less RAM even when Firefox needs it, because it is not cache, it cannot be dropped if needed, you just have less RAM available for you applications.