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I just installed Kubuntu 15.04, installed VLC, Chrome and configured some settings then ran sudo apt-get upgrade to upgrade the system and noticed that 2.6 GB of ram is being used! (and 3.4 GB while running Chrome).

Is that normal for the system? will it slow it down when doing more heavy multitasking? why isn't it using any swap to lower the load on the memory?

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USE:

sudo top

and then hit Shift+m (i.e. write a capital M) to order it by MAX usage.

This will give you an idea what eats up your RAM....then we can try to examine this further

  • Also increased memory usage when running Chrome is completely normal, because Chrome is known to be memory glutton...

  • Maybe your OS isn't using SWAP just because it doesn't need to, or your swapiness is set to be low...

  • KDE e.g. Kubuntu isn't among the most lightweight Ubuntu flavours (it may eat up more RAM than other flavours)

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