On Tuesday 14 June 2011 15:04:01 Will Stephenson wrote:
I'd be interested to know your opinion of the accuracy of ksysguard's memory stats (alt-f2, "System Monitor" under KDE). It seems to be going out of its way to deter people from drawing any conclusions from the classic top metrics (see the What's This help on the column headers: from Virtual Size: "This value in practice means next to nothing"), but I'd like to know if the alternative calculations it provides based on statm (Memory column) and smaps (Detailed Memory Information dialog for a given process are realistic.
Ooh, that is indeed nice. I hadn't looked at ksysguard in ages. Last I looked at it, it was more or less just a graphical replacement for top, but now it looks much better. The values there look correct, and if they get them from smaps that would explain it, because smaps should be the real truth about usage. I hope they will add a "swap" column too.
Due to their high degree of integration and shared components, and top, KDE apps routinely get clobbered by the uninformed for being "bloated", so the ksysguard author has tried to produce a tool that provides accurate stats.
That indeed looks very useful. Thanks for pointing it out. As I said, I hadn't looked at ksysguard in years, I didn't know how much they had improved it Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org