I've noticed that the Cinnamon process on my Linux Mint system tends to use an excessive amount of RAM if I leave my computer on for several hours without restarting. I'm not sure if it's due to something I've done or if it's a common issue. Is there a memory leak in Cinnamon, or is this normal behavior?
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You might want to run the command `free -m` to check if the memory is being used as cache. This isn't unusual behavior for Linux, as unused RAM is often allocated for cache to speed things up. When more memory is needed, the OS will free up the cache accordingly.
That makes sense! I'll remember to check that next time.