I have 8 GB RAM in my system, which I use for many things, but the important here is gaming. I have often ran out of memory, which obviously is not a good thing, and often hard to avoid (Programs don't slow down or anything, they run on full speed until suddenly everything freezes and the programs I am using, crash before I can save)
So I started looking into things a bit. Of course I can't kill the processes I am planning to use, but is it normal for ubuntu itself, when running no additional software, to take almost 2GB RAM? And is it possible to reduce this memory usage without breaking any programs I might want to run?
Here is how much the system takes without anything visible running on it
shinare@athena-laptop:~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7811360 1890248 3596620 615892 2324492 5041968
Swap: 1003516 0 1003516
