HA memory confusion

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I am getting inconsistent memory readings for Home Assistant OS.

Does anyone have any explanation for this?

Logging in with SSH and top command gives me these values
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According to these values, I am out of memory.

Then I login with SSH to host system using port 22222
using top command gives me

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image979×792 29.8 KB

and the glances addon values are below
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image1616×115 8.37 KB

Why are they inconsistent?

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The answer is, you’re not out of memory, this article goes into it in more depth, but the TL/DR is that buff and cached are parts of memory that can be freed up if something needs them.

This site gives a slightly less technical description of how it works.

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That cleared things up perfectly. Thanks!!!