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by mbell 2889 days ago
> ...until I hit 8 gb of ram (the amount installed on my machine).

I'm assuming you mean 8GB of ram 'used', by some metric of 'used'. What tends to confuse the hell out of people is what 'used' means. It varies by how it's measured, what OS you are using and how that OS is configured. I haven't a clue how Fedora 27 is configured nor how you are determining 'used' RAM, so my comment may well not apply to your use case.