On my qnap, I am doing a few operations. When I look at resource monitor, I see this: [image] Then I get this: [image] If swap is being used, that means that RAM is being fully utilized, correct? The first screenshot doesn’t even look to show my ram being fully utilized.

What is the QNAP model and used firmware ?

Model: TS-453D Firmware: QTS 5.2.9.3451

There is a memory display issue discussed here [image] QCenter not correctly reporting ram usage in Quts English This was reporting correctly when that NAS was on QTS 2 days ago. Showing 4% (lower right) iss 23%. [Screenshot (105)] [Screenshot (104)]

That’s also an incredibly small amount of memory. You are going to use a lot of swap with 4 GB.

If you don’t feel things running slow, just ignore the swap usage numbers. Modern systems start to use swap before memory is fully “used”. The “used” memory shown in the picture is actually application memory. “buffer” and “cache” are also used memory but not counted in the “used” section. When you…

If you don’t mind, could you share a list of the applications you currently have installed, as well as the ones you frequently use? Thanks!

Swap memory usage too high?

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dolbyman May 15, 2026, 12:08am 4

There is a memory display issue discussed here