# RAM consumption by Mender client
**URL:** https://hub.mender.io/t/ram-consumption-by-mender-client/680
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [June 7, 2019, 11:13am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/ram-consumption-by-mender-client/680 "2019-06-07T11:13:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@aro86](https://hub.mender.io/u/aro86)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2019, 11:13am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/ram-consumption-by-mender-client/680/1 "2019-06-07T11:13:41Z")
Hi everybody.
I have a question about the RAM consumption by Mender Client.
¿How much is the normal consumption while it is running as daemon but just waiting between server pools requests?
I have integrated it manually in a Raspsberry PI3. It works fine (it conects to the server, updates…), but it is consuming a lot of RAM.
For the cross-compilation i used this script [https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender-crossbuild/blob/master/go-executable-build.sh](https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender-crossbuild/blob/master/go-executable-build.sh).
This is top command information:
CPU: 1% usr 1% sys 0% nic 96% idle 0% io 0% irq 1% sirq
Load average: 0.00 0.00 0.00 2/129 2512
PID PPID USER STAT **VSZ** %VSZ %CPU COMMAND
2095 1 root S **737m** 82% 0% /usr/bin/mender -daemon
Is this normal?
Best regards
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### Author:  [@kacf](https://hub.mender.io/u/kacf)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/ram-consumption-by-mender-client/680/2 "2019-06-07T11:46:52Z")
Don’t pay attention to this number. It is virtual address space
allocation, not actual memory allocation. RES gives a more accurate
number, but even this is not 100% accurate because of shared memory and
such.
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### Author:  [@aro86](https://hub.mender.io/u/aro86)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/ram-consumption-by-mender-client/680/3 "2019-06-07T12:17:29Z")
> [@kacf](#):
>
> allocation, not actual memory allocation. RES gives a more accurate
Thanks for your help