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<div>Review request for Plasma.</div>
<div>By Rob Wu.</div>
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<b style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt;">Repository: </b>
ksysguard
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description </h1>
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">Before this patch, Cached only counted the page cache.
With this patch, the slab is also included. This change is visible
through the APi in "mem/physical/application" and "mem/physical/cached".</p>
<p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">Why? For the calculation of used memory (<code style="text-rendering: inherit;color: #4444cc;padding: 0;white-space: normal;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;">Appl</code>), the Slab should not
be counted as used memory as it is a cache for kernel data structures.</p>
<p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">free (from procps) calculates "Used" memory as follows:
MemTotal - MemFree - (Cached + Slab) - Buffers
(you can verify this using the numbers from <code style="text-rendering: inherit;color: #4444cc;padding: 0;white-space: normal;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;">cat /proc/meminfo</code>).</p>
<p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">This discrepancy in used memory was already noted before, at
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2008-December/002984.html</p>
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<p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">This "Slab" value [1] is not available from the systemmonitor. It usually
doesn't grow over 20MB at all anyway. I don't know how important this value
is, so is it a feasable solution to simply ignore this and only show used,
cache and buffer?</p>
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<p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">After 10 days of usage, my slab looks like this:</p>
<p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;"><div class="codehilite" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%"><span style="color: #19177C">$ </span>cat /proc/meminfo | grep Slab
Slab: <span style="color: #666666">2763208</span> kB
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<p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">Clearly, the slab is non-negligible and should be deducted.</p>
<p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">The immediate reason for writing this patch is that the "Memory Status"
plasmoid displayed 4G of "memory usage" even after closing all programs.
This was confusing, especially when <code style="text-rendering: inherit;color: #4444cc;padding: 0;white-space: normal;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;">free -m</code> showed a much lower value.</p></pre>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Testing </h1>
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">(on ArchLinux)</p>
<p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">Add the "Memory Status" plasmoid to the desktop if is not already there.
Note that the displayed value for "Physical memory" does not match the "Used" value as reported by <code style="text-rendering: inherit;color: #4444cc;padding: 0;white-space: normal;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;">free -m</code>.</p>
<p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">Build and install ksysguard after applying the patch:</p>
<p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;"><div class="codehilite" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">cd build/
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DKDE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF
make
sudo make install
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<p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">Then restart plasmashell</p>
<p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;"><div class="codehilite" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart plasmashell
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<p style="padding: 0;text-rendering: inherit;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;white-space: inherit;">Look at the "Memory Status" widget on the desktop and observe that it displays a sensible value (similar to the "Used" value of <code style="text-rendering: inherit;color: #4444cc;padding: 0;white-space: normal;margin: 0;line-height: inherit;">free -m</code>).</p></pre>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Diffs</b> </h1>
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<li>ksysguardd/Linux/Memory.c <span style="color: grey">(6b2fcab)</span></li>
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<p><a href="https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128267/diff/" style="margin-left: 3em;">View Diff</a></p>
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