2026-03-11 12:39 UTC
@yonle@fedinet.waltuh.cyou It's not the bright side because unused RAM is wasted.
The Linux kernel will utilize a large amount of free RAM to cache disk r/w. It is a massive speed-up, especially for your database and frequent file reads.
Page caches will automatically be dropped when your processes require more memory. That is the ideal condition.
But given this `free` script, it's not ideal because Contabo forcibly drops the cache every hour. That means my disk I/O is not properly cached in RAM, even if I have a large amount of RAM.
Dropping the cache means forcing the kernel to read frequently accessed files from slower storage (disk) rather than RAM.
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