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RAM is not freed even after all programs were shutdown

03 March 2021, 22:06:32

I was using vscode, running some android emulator. I was using around 8 GB of ram, then I shut them down. Shut everything down. Waited a minute but ram usage still as high. This is probably a bug. It's not supposed to happen. Even I killed adb server. I don't know what could be wrong. It solved after restart though.

Re: RAM is not freed even after all programs were shutdown

Reply #1 – 03 March 2021, 22:27:33

Please, before opening any new new topic, send feedback and mark your previous topics as solved, or not (for example)

If your hardware is having issues, we cannot assist.

Regards

Re: RAM is not freed even after all programs were shutdown

Reply #2 – 04 March 2021, 11:49:01

I just did. I am not sure that it's a hardware issue. Maybe kernel? I don't know. Then maybe I should reach to Linus Torvalds himself.

Re: RAM is not freed even after all programs were shutdown

Reply #3 – 04 March 2021, 12:21:57

Well done.

vscode and android emulators are probably having memory handling issues.

We do not  provide support for packages from AUR.

Therefore, you may address it to Linus, or to whom you would like to, but my suggestion would be, to create issues on their git project pages respectively, instead.

i.e. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

Re: RAM is not freed even after all programs were shutdown

Reply #4 – 04 March 2021, 15:16:58

Have you checked the memory usage with programs like htop or some system monitor?
There very well could be a zombie process still running, or something in background and you only closed the frontend.

So check this first, it is no Linux fault that something is eating memory.