diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/ggml-cpu.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/ggml-cpu.cpp
index 3fb46aaa4d8b5..0c15165f1b88e 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/ggml-cpu.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/ggml-cpu.cpp
@@ -348,8 +348,10 @@ static void ggml_backend_cpu_device_get_memory(ggml_backend_dev_t dev, size_t *
     long pages = sysconf(_SC_PHYS_PAGES);
     long page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE);
     *total = pages * page_size;
+
+    // "free" system memory is ill-defined, for practical purposes assume that all of it is free:
     *free = *total;
-#endif
+#endif // _WIN32
 
     GGML_UNUSED(dev);
 }