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Hi sunshine_august,
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Buffers and Cached is memory used by the kernel to optimize access to slow access data, usually disks.
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You can think of that as free memory, but you are much better while kernel have memory to use that way.
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I wrote some software that update several thousands of files, and that was a slow process. Later, as that updates repeated, the Kernel allocated near 2GB of memory to cached, and the performance was <b>really (I can't make enought enfase on that really)</b> improved.
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Memory in not something you may consider as enougth. It is only enougth if you can spare some to the kernel, it won't abuse it.
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