GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 93679
should distinguish swap used for disk cache
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Hi, The cpumemusage applet does not distinguish between swap that is used for disk cache and swap that is used for application allocation. It would be really nice if it did so. If I see a full swap I currently have no idea whether I'm in trouble because the swap is all application allocation. I believe this is possible - top seems to have the necessary statistics although gtop doesn't.
Hmm. The cpumemusage applet was never ported to 2.x.
then why this applet is in the components list ?
Because gnome-applets product handles both 1.x and 2.x bugs? Is it really a report for the multiload applet?
yes, of course
I don't think this is supported within libgtop and I don't think that there is much need for this feature anyway. Closing as WONTFIX, if anyone feels otherwise please reopen.
The part of cache in memory is reported, so why not the disk cache part ? Seeing the real use of swap and if swap is too small because of too much disk op or too much app launched or too consuming apps would be nice. If the reply is "use vmstat -m and stop disturbing us" then the whole multiload applet can be removed. Until non-gnome-devel are granted reopen right, i can only ask a friend to do so.
Please file a bug with libgtop. After that I will happily review a patch to multiload.