super high page cache in omv5 intalled in proxmox

I have been using omv5 for 2 years and a few weeks ago I installed my proxmox server and the first thing I installed was omv5 in a vm with 2gb of ram and I began to notice that the ram memory of my vm with proxmox OMV rose to 'heaven' every time I transferred data to my omv and it stays up without going down until I restarted the omv, this has seemed very strange to me and that is why I decided to increase the ram memory from 2 to 3gb but when making a transfer the use of the graph memory ram went up again in my proxmox up to more than 90% without going down until just restarting the omv.

however when i open my omv it is seen that it is not using that amount of ram

but when viewing the dashboard data it is seen that there is excessive use of the page cache

the use of ram memory is also seen when doing an htop or top

This is the first time that it has happened to me, never before the use of ram memory had been so high and if it became high it would immediately go down once the transfer processes were finished.

do you have any idea about that?

Quote from HannesJo

The idea of page cache is to use free ram space for caching as long as it is not needed elsewhere. That is why your mem usage is considered 14% while still being full of page cache. Everything fine. It is a feature. 😉

aaah! really? i never seen this before thas why i was worried... so could i down the mem to 2gb again with no problem?

Quote from ryecoaaron

Yes but if your transfers get slower, it might be due to less filesystem cache.

thanks I think I have understood a little better the use of ram in linux

Quote from donh

Did you check the box for "Ballooning Device" on the vm > hardware > memory under advanced?

You might also want to install qemu-guest-agent. apt install qemu-guest-agent

yes, I chose 'ballooning device'
but I don't know what it is for or how that quemu-guest-agent could help me... I'll try to find what that is

hi

now im upgrade to OMV6 and I still maintain the same situation..

Last week I made another vm with OMV6 with 2gb ram again but I see that this cache memory situation is not like that, it behaves as it normally does, which is 'normal' at least from what I'm used to seeing always;

i know that here toldme before that cache memory was good but... with all the time that has passed and now with the new installations that I have done I see that contrary to that, and I would like to know if anyone else has had this happen to him or is this happening?