top and system monitor discrepancy

[Jonas Pedersen]

prad wrote:
> i'm up to 4G ram now on my desktop with vm.swappiness = 0
> 
> i run system monitor and see that i'm using about 1G
> i run top and it says i'm using 3.9G
> 
> why is there this discrepancy?

This is most likely because top counts cache etc. while system monitor 
is excluding this.

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