gdesklets mem monitor reporting different usage than system

bgzee · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 116

my gdesklets mem monitor is reporting different usage than my system monitor. System monitor reports 218/502 used while the the desklet monitor reports 483/502. Im guessing the gnome system monitor is more accurate, but why the discrepancy?

BlackEdder · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 6:39 pm Post subject:

It seems gdesklets reports the same usage top would do, this means it sees cached mem as memory in use. See this thread for more info
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=175419&highlight=memory+usage

bgzee · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 116

so basically the gnome system monitor shows (ram usage - disk cache), while the desklet app shows it all. Thanks... now all i gotta hack the desklet script so it doesnt include the cache

edit: that post is great. so cool.....