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  • Just from that screenshot, I don’t see anything wrong. Your load is fine, you’re not swapping, and you have plenty of stuff cached with plenty of room to spare.

    Linux will try to cache as much as possible into memory; it doesn’t mean that it’s “using” it. So it seems like you’re conflating memory used with memory availability.

    If you start spilling into swap, then you’re getting a little high on your usage. For most people, the default settings for everything are fine; it’s also possible to over-optimize your system into worse performance.