RAM Usage (off USB Live Session is high)

[JohnnyHart]

Greetings Again,

I was on the brink of installing Zorin on my 6GB Micro PC rig… when… I noticed that with next to nothing open over 3GBs of RAM were in use. Like so –

I have Zorin Core running of a USB. Is that normal RAM usage? (When Ubuntu Mate is idle with nothing open it’s just under a GB of RAM.)

When you have nothing open in Zorin Core – how much RAM does it use I guess is my question.

[carmar]

for me with only screenshot open.

[bcnaz]

I believe when you are running from a ‘live’ disk or usb source most of the operating system is loaded into ram.
This is not typical of Zorin O.S. after it is installed.

[JohnnyHart]

That’s great news.

Thank you both.

[JohnnyHart]

That was it. With all sorts of tabs open –

[droid]

I've installed as dual boot the Zorin OS core on my PC though it's still using 37%+ memory even during idle what could be using such memory, the only app open on the foreground is the "system monitor"