# Free memory on Homey

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/free-memory-on-homey/21072>\
**Category:** Apps\
**Created:** [November 21, 2019, 10:29am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/free-memory-on-homey/21072 "2019-11-21T10:29:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/free-memory-on-homey/21072/7 "2019-11-21T14:09:49Z")

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Yeah, I was just going to post the same. It looks like Athom uses the “free” column from the `free` command line utility, which doesn’t take into account the amount of memory that’s currently being used for vfs cache (and which can be released on short notice if more RAM is required for user processes).

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