I've been noticing that the Cinnamon process in Linux Mint can consume all available RAM if I leave my computer on for a few hours without a restart. I'm reaching out here because I'm wondering if I might have misconfigured something or if this is a common issue.
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Loading processes in RAM helps keep your OS responsive. If your system doesn't feel sluggish and is still running smoothly, it’s likely just the OS managing memory efficiently. Unused RAM is often seen as wasted.
I encountered a similar situation where Cinnamon was using a massive 27 GB of RAM without any other applications open. It seemed way too high. Maybe there's a memory leak?
You might want to run `free -m` to check if the RAM is being used as cache. That's actually pretty normal and shouldn't be a problem at all.
There's an applet called 'restart Cinnamon' which could save you from having to reboot all the time when it gets heavy on resources.
Can you check how much of that RAM is being used as cache? Sometimes it can appear like you're losing memory when it’s really just being held in cache for faster access.
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