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What does cached and buffered RAM mean in Plesk Monitoring extension?

Gilson Siqueira
Updated February 28, 2026 21:27
kb: how-to Plesk for Linux

Applicable to:

  • Plesk for Linux

Question

What does cached and buffered RAM mean in Plesk Monitoring extension?

Answer

cached - Linux utilizes cache to make read and write operations faster because it’s quicker to read data from memory than from a hard disk.

buffered - amount of memory used by Linux kernel for buffers.

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