I don't know anything about smem. Have you tried reading the manpage? man smem
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 5:21 PM American Citizen <[email protected]> wrote: > Running smem -s uss -r and free commands seems to show discrepancies. > What is the correct account of physical memory usage? > > %smem -s uss -t -r > > > PID User Command Swap USS PSS RSS > > 28305 owner /usr/local/magma/magma.exe 0 6023928 6023975 > > 6026236 > > 1594 owner /usr/bin/plasmashell 0 347252 357093 > > 404536 > > 1579 owner /usr/bin/kwin_x11 0 32284 35022 > > 59544 > > 1576 owner /usr/bin/kded5 0 28228 30108 > > 48664 > > 1662 owner /usr/bin/konsole -session 1 0 24704 27076 > > 39320 > > 778 owner /usr/bin/konsole 0 22044 32783 > > 98000 > > 14893 owner /usr/bin/konsole 0 21656 32897 > > 99576 > > 7772 owner /usr/bin/konsole 0 21244 32110 > > 98168 > > 9221 owner /usr/bin/konsole 0 19396 30104 > > 96660 > > 14997 owner /usr/bin/konsole 0 18584 28309 > > 92576 > > (more lines...) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 107 1 0 6897956 7011198 > > 7892704 > %free > > total used free shared buff/cache available > > Mem: 32792684 20144052 3561056 38612 9087576 > > 12146680 > > Swap: 33581120 268 33580852 > > > > Why is smem showing about 6.89 to 7.89 gigs of memory used, when the > > free command is > > showing 20.144 gigs used. Who is right? > > > > Is there any CLI command which gets this right? It is discouraging to > > have commands report different totals, when you are expecting some > > real accounting and some true idea of what is happening with your system. > > - Randall > > >
