Ram - What Does Cached Memory Mean When Viewing Htop? - Ask Ubuntu
Fleeting- External reference: https://askubuntu.com/questions/327111/what-does-cached-memory-mean-when-viewing-htop
cached memory is used so that the HDD doesn’t have to be read each time you open a file or a folder. So when you cache something it saves a disk read, that saves time and that’s why Ubuntu caches as much as possible
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