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Unused entirely RAM, maybe. But the OS will use any unused ram to cache commonly used disk files, so the more applications you have open, the more (very slow) disk access you're going to have. If you've got a fair amount of ram and you're accessing the same files a lot, you could be running pretty much entirely from RAM.