-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a process that is very memory intensive (analyzing > ca. 500,000 phylogenetic trees). It's using 1.6Gb of virtual memory, > 1.2Gb of physical memory (I have 1.5Gb of RAM). However, htop reports > only 21.5 for MEM%, while top reports 83.8 for %MEM. I thought that > htop was just a prettier top, but I can't find an explanation in the > man pages for the difference in the reported MEM%. VIRT and RES are > the same for both. Where does the difference come from? > > Not a burning issue, just curious... > > Tyler > > The way it appears (to me) is that top is telling you the free memory including the cache buffer and htop is telling you the free memory without it. When I run them, I get the same number if I subtract the buffer usage from the available memory.
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