Resolving Excessive Buff/Cache Memory Usage in Linux

Resolving Excessive Buff/Cache Memory Usage in Linux

In Linux, it is common to encounter issues with excessive buff/cache memory usage, especially when using cloud servers. Since many of these are virtual memory, if buff/cache occupies too much, there will be very little free memory available, which affects usability. The typical memory relationship is: Regular machines: total=used+free Virtual machines : total=used+free+buff/cache For example, … Read more