Is Puppy a memory hog?

[Bruce B]

Puppy uses a BusyBox extension 'free' for measuring
memory. Free includes cache and buffers as used memory,
leading to artificially higher readings than it should, because
Linux will drop cache and buffers to make room for a new
processes.

Full featured 'free' utilities factor out the buffers and
cache by default. (Conky does also) I've attached a simple
little script which outputs the same calculations as the full
featured free, thus giving the user a way of calculating
memory usage the same way the a full version
such as 'procps free' does. Output example below.

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MemTotal:  515964
-/+ buffers/cache
MemUsed:   97668
MemFree:   418296

Hoping you find it a helpful tool.

~

[Béèm]

Nice tool.
It runs only from a terminal and I had to type sh memfree to have it run.
Indeed free and htop (even per pid) give higher values for the reasons explained.

[Bruce B]

Béèm,

I could have it run off a menu with a dialog where the user
clicks OK to close it.

Problem is what to call it? How does beemer sound?

If you do the desktop item. I can do the script.

Bruce

PS Please note my avatar, I'm still getting used to the
notion of a GUI :)

[Béèm]

I have noticed your avatar, which is significant, but I don't have a problem with it.
I wasn't aiming at a GUI implementation. I just wondered why I had to have sh to be typed in front of memfree to have it executed.

Is there something missing on my system (upup alpha 6)

[Bruce B]

I just wondered why I had to have sh to
be typed in front of memfree to have it executed.

Béèm

I suppose. not having more information, it's location. I
think if you put it in the executable path say at:

/root/my-applications/bin

Then it will run simply by typing in the name.

But if you want a menu item, that's not a problem, mostly
I think in terms of the CLI and run the computer off it.

For an example: I type 'sea' to run SeaMonkey

Bruce