free memory with lxtask

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FrancescoA
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Joined: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:20 pm

free memory with lxtask

Post by FrancescoA »

Hi, lxtask looks lean and fast, but:

When I run lxtask and gnome-system-monitor side by side:
lxtask reports about 129 MB used, gnome sys monitor 112,8 MB used.

Why this difference (used swap space was 0 byte at that time).
anubisg1
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Joined: Sun May 24, 2009 3:58 pm

Re: free memory with lxtask

Post by anubisg1 »

can you please run "free -m" to see witch one is wrong? thanks
FrancescoA
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Re: free memory with lxtask

Post by FrancescoA »

anubisg1 wrote:can you please run "free -m" to see witch one is wrong? thanks

ok:

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free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          2013        951       1061          0         80        502
-/+ buffers/cache:        368       1644
Swap:         1023          0       1023
368,8 MB used (of 2,0 GiB) in gnome system monitor
449 MB of 2013 MB used in lxtaskt
anubisg1
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Re: free memory with lxtask

Post by anubisg1 »

2013 - 1644 = 369

gnome system monitor is right.

BUGZILAAAAAA!!!!!! ;) :lol: :lol: :lol:
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