Xfce reporting a lot more RAM usage?

Teresa e Junior teresaejunior at gmail.com
Mon Jul 8 16:41:58 CEST 2019


Nevermind, the systemload plugin uses MemAvailable from /proc/meminfo,
which is the more "modern" way of checking free RAM, according to
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=34e431b0ae398fc54ea69ff85ec700722c9da773

Em seg, 8 de jul de 2019 às 03:55, Teresa e Junior
<teresaejunior at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
> In the screenshot attached and also available at
> https://imgur.com/a/RlWnFb6 , `free -h` reports used+shared as 2.65
> GB, which is correctly shown by `htop` too.
>
> xfce4-taskmanager shows 6.2 GB (52%), how did it arrive at this amount?
>
> xfce4-systemload-plugin shows 3.2 GB, both seem to be just miscalculating.
>
> This also makes it seem Xfce4 is using way more RAM than it actually is!


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