RAM info off the chart

Mikko Ahlroth repo owner

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This is expected. The memory usage as reported by sys/sysinfo.h includes all OS buffers and cache. Linux (and therefore Sailfish) optimizes memory usage by using almost all available memory for caches to speed up operations.

Htop on the other hand uses different sources of information and attempts to give a more relevant view of the memory usage in the system. The memory usage bar in htop does include cached memory (usually as blue) which fills almost the whole bar.

As the main focus of SailTime is to display system uptime, I don't feel it is necessary to fix the memory usage bar to not include cached memory. The memory usages are only shown because they are received "for free" in the same struct as uptime data.

2014-02-16T21:51:27+00:00

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Mikko Ahlroth repo owner
- changed status to invalid
This is expected. The memory usage as reported by sys/sysinfo.h includes all OS buffers and cache. Linux (and therefore Sailfish) optimizes memory usage by using almost all available memory for caches to speed up operations.

Htop on the other hand uses different sources of information and attempts to give a more relevant view of the memory usage in the system. The memory usage bar in htop does include cached memory (usually as blue) which fills almost the whole bar.

As the main focus of SailTime is to display system uptime, I don't feel it is necessary to fix the memory usage bar to not include cached memory. The memory usages are only shown because they are received "for free" in the same struct as uptime data.
- 2014-02-16T21:51:27+00:00
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