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Bug 117815 - Multiload memory monitor isn't Linux 2.5/2.6 aware
Multiload memory monitor isn't Linux 2.5/2.6 aware
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 104747
Product: libgtop
Classification: Core
Component: linux
unspecified
Other Linux
: High normal
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Assigned To: gnome-applets Maintainers
gnome-applets Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-07-19 01:59 UTC by Lem
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.3/2.4


Description Lem 2003-07-19 01:59:12 UTC 
The memory monitor of the multiload applet in Gnome2.2 (called System
Monitor 2.2.2 in the About box) isn't aware of the changes in /proc/meminfo
from Linux 2.4 to Linux 2.5/2.6, on my system (Linux 2.6.0-test1) it always
shows 0mb of RAM in use.
Comment 1 Kevin Vandersloot 2003-08-24 14:00:43 UTC 
Could you please show the output of /proc/meminfo?
Comment 2 Lem 2003-08-25 04:32:42 UTC 
Linux 2.6.0-test4 on Debian SID:

cat /proc/meminfo

MemTotal:       515772 kB
MemFree:        130120 kB
Buffers:         35172 kB
Cached:         161680 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         237840 kB
Inactive:       120708 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       515772 kB
LowFree:        130120 kB
SwapTotal:     1132500 kB
SwapFree:      1132500 kB
Dirty:             140 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:         227928 kB
Slab:            18572 kB
Committed_AS:   299116 kB
PageTables:       1780 kB
VmallocTotal:   516024 kB
VmallocUsed:     20616 kB
VmallocChunk:   493712 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
Hugepagesize:     4096 kB


Below is the first three lines from the output generated by
cat /proc/meminfo on Linux 2.4.20, these are absent in 2.5/2.6

        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  30162944 28852224  1310720        0  4988928  7163904
Swap: 386576384  2654208 383922176
Comment 3 Luke Maurer 2003-10-10 22:43:54 UTC 
Are there any plans or patches floating around to fix this? I've been
running 2.5/2.6 for a good while now ... Thanks!
Comment 4 Kjartan Maraas 2003-10-12 08:28:38 UTC 
I think it would be very nice to have this fixed for 2.4.1 since
there's a lot of people who are starting to use 2.6 kernels now. We
have some similar patches in libgtop that might be of use. Would be
nice to have those in there too for 2.4.1. Setting pri up.
Comment 5 Kevin Vandersloot 2003-10-12 13:38:20 UTC 
Yah, this is a problem in libgtop not multiload. If we have patches
them we should apply them. Moving this bug there.
Comment 6 Kevin Vandersloot 2003-10-12 13:43:08 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104747 ***