Ram/Memory Usage

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I have home assistant os installed on proxmox, proxmox says its using over 90% of its memory (7.32 GiB of 8.00 GiB) however glances addon says it’s only using around 17% (1.4G). Which is correct? Why do I have a discrepancy?

I wanted to use proxmox addon to get life stats of memory usage but if 17% is actually right I can’t get that because proxmox reports differently…

Little confused, just need this clearing up…

EDIT: Should have mentioned the system runs flawlessly, no problems at all so it can’t be using all its memory or I’d expect it to bog down…

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Search the site. There are plenty of topics about this. It is just how memory management works in proxmox. The kernel hates unused (wasted) memory. So it uses it for caching and buffering.

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Proxmox sees the used memory , but not what it is used for.
HA shows the memory used, but a lot of it is just cache that can be quickly discard when more memory is used.
Proxmox can not see if it is cache or if it is memory used for real by HA.