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System Monitor – Resources tab not correlating with memory usage in Processes tab

sil@klon:~$ free -m
             total       used       free    buffers     cached
Mem:          8000       7865        134        864       4621
-/+ buffers/cache:       2380       5620
Swap:         8191          0       8191
sil@klon:~$ free -m
             total       used       free    buffers     cached
Mem:          8000       6846       1154       2029       1177
-/+ buffers/cache:       3638       4361
Swap:         8191          0       8191

3.6Gib in Resources tab, Matches the 3638 in used above.

1922 is the approx total displayed in Processes down to <1MiB

3638-2029=1609

Good enough for me ;-)

The Resources Tab Used figure of 3.6Gib seems to include Buffers.


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