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Bug 129562 - Wrong info about memory and swap utilization with kernel 2.6
Wrong info about memory and swap utilization with kernel 2.6
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 129863
Product: system-monitor
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: System-monitor maintainers
System-monitor maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-12-17 20:46 UTC by Marcin Zajaczkowski
Modified: 2011-11-11 10:03 UTC
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Description Marcin Zajaczkowski 2003-12-17 20:46:50 UTC 
After change kernel from 2.4.23-pre6 to 2.6-test8 in System Monitor info
about memory & swap utilization is wrong. I see that it is used 0 bytes of
4K of memory and 0 bytes of 11K of swap (second values change sametimes).
I think Top's report is correct. Maybe problem is not in System Monitor but
in LibGTop?
Comment 1 Marcin Zajaczkowski 2004-02-05 15:59:30 UTC 
However 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>
Comment 2 Marcin Zajaczkowski 2004-03-02 18:34:30 UTC 
It was confirmed that this problem doesn't exist with Fedora Rawhide
release of LibGTop (libgtop2-2.5.1-1).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129863 ***