> I noticed that SuperKaramba reports memory usage differently to the free and > vmsize commands when you select the format="%umb" option (described as "Used > memory in megabytes (cache and buffers excluded)." on the SuperKaramba > sensors page [1]). > > The memory usage appears to be considerably lower than that reported by the > free command. For example, at the moment free outputs the following: > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 386948 383360 3588 0 26488 105076 > -/+ buffers/cache: 251796 135152 > Swap: 562232 355856 206376 > > whereas my SuperKaramba theme reports the used memory excluding cache and > buffers to be 210Mb (instead of 251796/1024=246Mb). > > I had a look at the source code in the Debian package. The memory usage is > found by parsing the /proc/meminfo file. The MemSensor::getCached() function > calculates the amount of cache as the total "Cached" and "SwapCached" memory > and the free memory is calculated using this value. This means that the > reported free memory is lower than that reported by "free" by the amount of > SwapCached memory. I'm pretty sure that this is wrong as SwapCached relates > to > the swap partition rather than the physical memory, but I wanted to run it > past you guys before filing a bug. Also, is this better filed with the Debian > BTS or upstream? > > Using pure Sid, stock kernel 2.6.8, SuperKaramba version 0.35-2. > > [1] http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/ssensors.html
Submitted to Debian BTS: #306583 Cheers James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
