top and system monitor discrepancy

[Jaspreet Singh]

r u using 32bit or 64 bit edition?????

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Jonas Pedersen <jonas at chown.dk> wrote:

> 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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