GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 134422
Wrong info about memory and swap utilization with kernel 2.6
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
After change kernel from 2.4 to 2.6 (actually 2.6.2, but problem exists in ealier 2.6 too) in System Monitor info about memory & swap utilization is wrong (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108034). I see that it is used 0 bytes of 4K of memory and 0 bytes of 11K of swap (second values change sametimes). I reported this bug in system-monitor section (Bug 129562), but after lecture of "The post-halloween document" v0.48 by Dave Jones I think this is problem with LibGTop. <QUOTA> procps. ~~~~~~~ - The 2.6 /proc filesystems changed some statistics, which confuse older versions of procps. Rik van Riel and Robert Love have been maintaining a version of procps during the development of 2.6 which tracks changes to /proc which you can find at http://tech9.net/rml/procps/ - Alternatively, the procps by Albert Cahalan now supports the altered formats since v3.0.5 -- http://procps.sf.net/ - The /proc/meminfo format changed slightly which also broke gtop in strange ways. Likely this also broke some of the KDE/GNOME panel applets. </QUOTA> So I report it here. Because I don't have 100% memory utilization I'm not sure that it's the same that http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129721 . I have Athlon processor.
the problem is already fixed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129863 update your libgtop2
Thanks for pointing that out Benoit. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129863 ***