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LucetLux

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Registered: 2013-08-16

Posts: 165

[SOLVED]{It was never actually an issue} top's memory monitor broken

Top's memory usage monitor seems to have been broken for some time now, I first noticed this months ago but at first I didn't give it relevance since I hardly ever use it.
All the text is displayed in red, like when your memory is completely full, however that is not the case, top  reports 27.5 GB of ram are in use out of a total of 5.833, this of course is nonsense, ksysguard reports less than 2GB are actually in use.
I don't know what caused this but as I said, it has been a while since it started happening, it's not a big deal but it would be nice to be able to fix it.
Thanks in advance.

Last edited by LucetLux (2014-12-26 10:47:36)

Vain

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Registered: 2008-10-19

Posts: 183

Re: [SOLVED]{It was never actually an issue} top's memory monitor broken

Hi,

it’s just confusing as f*ck. The man page says:

       In  the alternate memory display modes, two abbreviated summary
       lines are shown consisting of these elements:
                      a    b          c
           GiB Mem : 18.7/15.738   [ ...
           GiB Swap:  0.0/7.999    [ ...

       Where: a) is the percentage used; b) is  the  total  available;
       and c) is one of two visual graphs of those representations.

So, in your case, `top` reported about 27.5% of RAM are in use, which appears to be correct if less than 2GB out of 5.8GB are in use.

LucetLux

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Registered: 2013-08-16

Posts: 165

Re: [SOLVED]{It was never actually an issue} top's memory monitor broken

Hi,

it’s just confusing as f*ck. The man page says:

       In  the alternate memory display modes, two abbreviated summary
       lines are shown consisting of these elements:
                      a    b          c
           GiB Mem : 18.7/15.738   [ ...
           GiB Swap:  0.0/7.999    [ ...

       Where: a) is the percentage used; b) is  the  total  available;
       and c) is one of two visual graphs of those representations.

So, in your case, `top` reported about 27.5% of RAM are in use, which appears to be correct if less than 2GB out of 5.8GB are in use.

Huh, has it always been like that ? I certainly don't remember it being like that...
Anyway, thanks, I guess that explains that part, what I still don't get is why the text is dark red, is it a new thing that it's always all red ? It just calls 'red alert' to me.

EDIT: Okay, just looked into that https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1474872 I didn't bother to search about the always red thing before, I was more worried about the 27GB of ram in use out of 6  . Kind of weird that the default colour they chose was red...
Thanks for your help, I'm certainly a lot less confused now.

Last edited by LucetLux (2014-12-26 10:45:41)

lucke

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Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,019

Re: [SOLVED]{It was never actually an issue} top's memory monitor broken

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=189757