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Quote (meo @ June 25 2008,17:27)

Hi curaga!

What do you mean with cache column? I've had my doubts when it comes to the torsmo monitor a long time. The RAM usage and the SWAP usage doesn't add up in /home. The usage of resources in the /home line stays virtually the same even if you use extensions that are very resource "hungry" like Firefox 3.0 for example. Do you have any explanation to that? I'd appreciate any input in this matter just to know for the future.

Have fun out there in the cyberworld with DSL,
meo

The /home line is Torsmo getting diskfree info. It does not cross filesystems. Since /home is on a different filesystem then any union mounted extension, their disk usage will never change.

Hi chaostic!

Thank you for your comment. The thing is that I'm running DSL (embedded with the following boot code from a cd: dsl fromhd=/dev/sda1 frugal ) from a SDHC card attached to the usb port so I assumed that /home was a combination of the SWAP partition and the RAM memory but I might be wrong. So what would be /home in this case?

Have fun everybody with DSL,
meo

EDIT: Since /home now have three values ( used, left and total ) I have to clarify that I'm referring to the used value that only changes within a range of about 8 MB.

Quote (meo @ June 25 2008,19:57)

Hi chaostic!

Thank you for your comment. The thing is that I'm running DSL (embedded with the following boot code from a cd: dsl fromhd=/dev/sda1 frugal ) from a SDHC card attached to the usb port so I assumed that /home was a combination of the SWAP partition and the RAM memory but I might be wrong. So what would be /home in this case?

Have fun everybody with DSL,
meo

EDIT: Since /home now have three values ( used, left and total ) I have to clearify that I'm referring to the used value that only changes within a range of about 8 MB.

From .torsmorc:

Code Sample

# fs_free (fs) Free space on a file system available
# for users.
~snip~
/home $color${fs_free /home/dsl}/${fs_size /home/dsl}
${color grey}${fs_bar 3 /home/dsl}

Run "df -h"
then "ls -halF /"
Whatever filesystem "/home/dsl" is on is what /home shows. Since you didn't say you had a persistent home, /home/dsl should be on /ramdisk/home/dsl
/home in torsmo should be showing the free user space (Minus the default spacing saved for the root user) available on the /ramdisk/

Hi again chaostic!

Thanks for your post regarding torsmo. To me it seems that /home in my setup is the SWAP partition. Although the Swap Used line doesn't coincide with the /home used but it is what is closest to the actual space I have and that is just what I thought might be the case.

Have fun and keep on helping out in this forum,
meo

I meant the "cached" column you see when you type "free". Since caches & buffers can usually be thrown away it's OK torsmo doesn't calculate them into used ram, but tmpfs lives in caches, so it can't be thrown away if an app needs the ram.
I'm not aware of any other means to find out your true free ram other than (torsmo value - used space in /ramdisk)

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