{"id":724,"date":"2023-01-04T08:08:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T08:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2023\/01\/04\/6867460-how-to-check-detailed-ram-usage-on-your-vps-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:53:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:53:29","slug":"6867460-how-to-check-detailed-ram-usage-on-your-vps-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6867460-how-to-check-detailed-ram-usage-on-your-vps-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Check Detailed RAM Usage on Your VPS at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">If you see an unusually high RAM usage in the hPanel dashboard:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/01\/59494458-bec5-44ee-a396-68c824ce3fe3.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Our recommendation is to check the detailed usage inside the server. Just log in to your <b><a href=\"\/support\/5723772-how-to-connect-to-your-vps-via-ssh\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">VPS via SSH<\/a><\/b> and enter the following command:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><pre><code>free -m<\/code><\/pre><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">It will generate a table breaking down the RAM usage similar to this:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/pt\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2023\/02\/6cb6a56e-b6e3-4cc2-b9b7-2ba8e226b2e2.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Let&rsquo;s go over each column:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Total<\/b> &ndash; the RAM limit set for your VPS plan<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Used<\/b> &ndash; memory in use at the moment<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Free<\/b> &ndash; unused memory<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Shared<\/b> &ndash; memory used by temporary files<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Buff\/cache<\/b> &ndash; memory used by kernel buffers and page cache<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Available<\/b> &ndash;  how much memory your server can additionally use to execute further processes<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTES<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Due to the calculation method, there may be variations between the total and the sum of used and free memory<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">The hPanel dashboard graph displays the <b>sum of used and buff\/cache<\/b> as used memory<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">If you see <b>high usage in the cache column<\/b>, you do not need to worry! Caching improves the performance of your VPS by using free memory to buffer frequently-accessed files. <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">In addition, Linux has a built-in memory management feature that will automatically release cache memory as pressure increases within your VPS. This will prevent it from running out of memory &ndash; so you <b>don&rsquo;t have to clear the cache<\/b> to increase available memory &#128522;<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Additional Resources<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.man7.org\/linux\/man-pages\/man1\/free.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Linux manual &ndash; free command<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a href=\"\/support\/1583325-how-to-optimize-your-website-to-make-it-load-faster#h_629dabf149\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">How to Optimize Database Queries<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/tutorials\/website-optimization#5_Speed_Up_Your_Site\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Website Optimization &ndash; speed up your site<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Checking RAM usage on VPS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vps-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6867460-how-to-check-detailed-ram-usage-on-your-vps-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/6867460-como-verificar-el-uso-detallado-de-ram-en-tu-vps-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/6867460-comment-verifier-l-utilisation-detaillee-de-la-ram-sur-votre-vps-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"lt-LT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/lt\/support\/6867460-kaip-patikrinti-ram-sunaudojima-vps-planuose-hostinger-platformoje\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/6867460-como-conferir-o-uso-detalhado-de-ram-em-sua-vps-no-hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3112,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/3112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}