Unused RAM is wasted RAM. If you’ve got 64GB of RAM but your system never uses more than 8GB of RAM, you don’t need 64GB of RAM and you’re not getting any benefit from it.
On any modern os unused ram is ot simply unused. It is used for caching files and other stuff. So more ram can provide significant performance improvements for some taks even if “unused”.
How is it 2025 and people still don’t understand how RAM works?
If you’ve got 64GB of RAM, ideally you want to be using nearly all of that 64GB at all times.
It’s not like I’m manually clearing things out of the ram. And before the power outage last weekend I had an up-time over 2 months.
Is there a way to have the OS utilize more?
Explain why.
Unused RAM is wasted RAM. If you’ve got 64GB of RAM but your system never uses more than 8GB of RAM, you don’t need 64GB of RAM and you’re not getting any benefit from it.
On any modern os unused ram is ot simply unused. It is used for caching files and other stuff. So more ram can provide significant performance improvements for some taks even if “unused”.
That doesn’t show as unused.