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FS#46804 - [mate-system-monitor] showing wrong (too high) memory usage

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Andy (a7arch) - Tuesday, 20 October 2015, 04:14 GMT
Last edited by Martin Wimpress (flexiondotorg) - Friday, 06 November 2015, 20:51 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Martin Wimpress (flexiondotorg)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

I hope this is not duplicated again... ;-) searched, but did't found a bug report for this.

After the last Update (2015-10-20), the memory usage displayed in "mate-system-monitor" is much too high!
e.g.
PROCESS MEMORY
bash 3,1 GiB
caja 3,6 GiB
gvfs-smb 260,1 MiB
...and so on

Tested this with a second, new installed system (in VirtualBox), with same results: After update, the memory usage shown in "mate-system-monitor" is wrong!
In other tool (top,htop) the memory usage is displayed correct.

Current kernel: 4.1.10-1-MANJARO i686
Current "mate" version: 1.10.2
Current "mate-system-monitor": 1.10.1
My system has 1,5 GB RAM... VirtualBox 512MB RAM

For more please see attachements (picture: before - after)
   mate-system-monitor_wrong_mem... (209 KiB)
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Closed by  Martin Wimpress (flexiondotorg)
Friday, 06 November 2015, 20:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Piotr Jurkiewicz (piotrjurkiewicz) - Sunday, 25 October 2015, 00:31 GMT
I experience the same bug on Thinkpad X220, freshly installed Arch 64-bit.

What is interesting, this bug affects only these processes which are owned by the user who launched mate-system-monitor (see screenshot).
   mate-system-monitor.png (157.8 KiB)
Comment by Andy (a7arch) - Monday, 26 October 2015, 03:57 GMT
Yep, confirmed. When I switch to "View -> All Processes", the system processes show a normal memory usage, only the processes owned by the user are wrong. Didn't notice that, thank you!
Comment by Michael Coupet (BwackNinja) - Thursday, 29 October 2015, 02:59 GMT
There's a problem figuring out "Writable Memory". That's where the big numbers come from.

That said, I tried digging into it, but the problem went away after I rebuilt the package. It might be a CXXFLAGS issue or something.
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Friday, 06 November 2015, 08:42 GMT
Please test mate-system-monitor 1.12.0-1.
Comment by Piotr Jurkiewicz (piotrjurkiewicz) - Friday, 06 November 2015, 15:45 GMT
In my case the problem seems to be fixed.
Comment by Martin Wimpress (flexiondotorg) - Friday, 06 November 2015, 20:51 GMT
Upstream feedback is unanimously reporting this issue is fixed in 1.12.

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