I am struggling with large memory usage (fresh rebooted server) eats 6 GB of RAM memory total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 31776 6363 23424 1 1988 25028 after shutting down services and killing processes (sudo sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; free -m showed still 6 GB in use…

Rocky Linux 8 6 GB memory in noncache used by kernel

fkaluza October 28, 2024, 8:50am 7

I also got an reply from OVH support - in short AMD EPYC cpu causes kernel takes more ram

NFS mounts hang forever

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