Bug 75207 – gnome-system-monitor 2.8.1 does not distinguish application memory and buffer memory

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ivan Yosifov 2004-12-21 09:38:13 UTC]

gnome-system-monitor 2.8.1 does not distinguish application memory and buffer memory and as a result shows a constantly maximum memory curve. It is supposed to show only app memory , as app+caches always sum up to all the mem available.  I have attached a screenshot.At the same time:

obelix@localhost ~ $ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1010        993         17          0        197        509
-/+ buffers/cache:        286        724
Swap:          737          0        737

As you see half of the memory is caches.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.run gnome-system-monitor
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
it shows me the memory used by apps+caches

Expected Results:  
It is supposed to show app memory only

Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.10-rc3obelix i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-rc3obelix i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r6,sys-devel/autoconf-2.13
Automake:
sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r2,sys-devel/automake-1.5,sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6,sys-devel/automake-1.6.3,sys-devel/automake-1.7.9,sys-devel/automake-1.9.3
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r2
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fprefetch-loop-arrays
-fforce-addr -falign-functions=4"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fprefetch-loop-arrays
-fforce-addr -falign-functions=4"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms test"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ITDNet.net/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib acpi alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dba doc
encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk
gtk2 guile hal imagemagick imlib jack java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad
mikmod mmap motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl pam
pdflib perl plotutils png postgres python qt quicktime readline sdl session
slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype unicode usb vhosts x86 xml
xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_en"

[Comment 1 Ivan Yosifov 2004-12-21 09:39:10 UTC]

Created attachment 46551 [details]
Problem screenshot

[Comment 2 Ivan Yosifov 2004-12-21 09:42:15 UTC]

Kernel is 2.6.10-rc3 if it matters.

[Comment 3 Joe McCann (RETIRED) 2004-12-23 05:06:30 UTC]

This problem was suposed to have been fixed a while ago, but either it wasn't, changes got reverted, or it has just stopped working for some reason.

Here is the upstream bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73281
feel free to cc yourself. 

[Comment 4 Joe McCann (RETIRED) 2004-12-23 05:16:54 UTC]

I of course meant http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94219