I am using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It used to be fine before I started installing tools like elastic search and other stuff, but now I notice unusually high RAM consumption.
Here are screenshots of my System Monitor:
Here is the output of cat /proc/meminfo:
MemTotal: 16129344 kB
MemFree: 2286680 kB
MemAvailable: 3967360 kB
Buffers: 119744 kB
Cached: 2719044 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 610276 kB
Inactive: 11923068 kB
Active(anon): 8048 kB
Inactive(anon): 10646840 kB
Active(file): 602228 kB
Inactive(file): 1276228 kB
Unevictable: 913328 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 2097148 kB
SwapFree: 2097148 kB
Dirty: 160 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 10608000 kB
Mapped: 600224 kB
Shmem: 960324 kB
KReclaimable: 121880 kB
Slab: 236708 kB
SReclaimable: 121880 kB
SUnreclaim: 114828 kB
KernelStack: 18128 kB
PageTables: 49624 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 10161820 kB
Committed_AS: 16875648 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 43976 kB
VmallocChunk: 0 kB
Percpu: 6816 kB
HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB
AnonHugePages: 0 kB
ShmemHugePages: 0 kB
ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB
FileHugePages: 0 kB
FilePmdMapped: 0 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
Hugetlb: 0 kB
DirectMap4k: 283816 kB
DirectMap2M: 6789120 kB
DirectMap1G: 10485760 kB
