Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.8-9
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/free
Tags: upstream
Basically the program rounds values (with -k -m -g).
Judging from the output, an integer division occurs:
user@host:~$ free -b
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3159871488 1254219776 1905651712 0 29384704 487247872
-/+ buffers/cache: 737587200 2422284288
Swap: 6168764416 0 6168764416
user@host:~$ free -g
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2 1 1 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 0 2
Swap: 5 0 5
Bytes / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = GigaBytes
3159871488 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 2 GB
It should be (ruby code/syntax) :
Bytes / 1024 / 1024 / 1024.0 = GigaBytes
sprintf('%.1f', (3159871488 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024.0)) = 2.9 GB
Integer division for gigabyte values is misleading especially for
non-programming
users (and also not very usefull).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-13.1 scripts for initializing and shutt
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 22.11-1 utilities that use the proc file s
procps suggests no packages.
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