Bug#317650: marked as done (gnome-system-monitor: Reports different ammount of free memory compared to 'top')

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Package: gnome-system-monitor
Version: 2.10.1-2
Severity: normal

According to gnome-system-monitor, 191.8 MB of memory is used, but 
according to top, it's 384420 kb. I don't know which number is correct, 
but since top is older and presumably more well tested, I report it 
here.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-system-monitor depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.10.1-2        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.10.0-1        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.10.0-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-22    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4              2.10.0-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.5-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0              2.10.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.10.2-2        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.10.1-1        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.10.1-5        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.8-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtop2-5               2.10.2-1        Libraries for gtop system monitori
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                1:2.12.2-2      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.8.1-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management
ii  libwnck16                2.10.2-1        Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libxml2                  2.6.19-1        GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper             0.3.14-10       A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-7       compression library - runtime

gnome-system-monitor recommends no packages.

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Subject: Re: Bug#317650: gnome-system-monitor: Reports different ammount of
	free memory compared to 'top'
From: Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>
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Le dimanche 10 juillet 2005 =E0 20:03 +0200, Beno=EEt Dejean a =E9crit :

> np. g-s-m displays user memory because Linux is so efficient that it
> always uses all you memory (uses caches and buffer) so displaying used
> physical memory is not very interesting.
>=20
> please close this bug.

You just have to send a but to nnnnn-done@bugs.debian.org to do this :)


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher







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