Unable to run anything (Too much ram is cached)

[levegetapwns]

12.6 GBs of my 16GBs of ram is cached and is unusable. I understand that cached ram is usually good, but there is something wrong in my situation. I can hardly run anything, having a couple tabs of chrome open crashes it causing an error message regarding my memory. I would like to be able to properly use my ram again and have it uncached. Thank you.

 

[Pinhedd]

12.6 GBs of my 16GBs of ram is cached and is unusable. I understand that cached ram is usually good, but there is something wrong in my situation. I can hardly run anything, having a couple tabs of chrome open crashes it causing an error message regarding my memory. I would like to be able to properly use my ram again and have it uncached. Thank you.

unused memory is wasted, so it's used to build a disk cache. Total utilisation will approach 100% as system uptime increases; this is intended by design. Parts of the cache will be released as memory is needed for program purposes.