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[done]Boron+conky+RAM

Boron/bookworm is currently running the memory leaked conky version 1.18.1. The fix for this is in sid with conky-version 1.18.3

So this will appear soon in bookworm.
On a related note, however, I noticed that the configurations used in the conky manager regarding RAM all use the wrong ${mem} variable instead of ${legacymem}.
This causes these conky's to show an approx.200MB too large RAM memory.

conky (1.18.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
    - Fix memory leak by caching X11 pixel values. (Closes: #1032259)

 -- Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org>  Mon, 06 Mar 2023 23:06:03 -0800

@johnraff, you would have to correct that with. 

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johnraff

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Re: [done]Boron+conky+RAM

^Opinions vary on that "too large" with regard to memory.
Others say the legacy figure is in fact too low.
We discussed this before:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=7854

Apparently the lower figure is wrong  with modern systems because cache contains some important stuff that can't be thrown away.

https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/1090
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke … 722c9da773

Many load balancing and workload placing programs check /proc/meminfo to estimate how much free memory is available.  They generally do this by adding up "free" and "cached", which was fine ten years ago, but is pretty much guaranteed to be wrong today.

At that time, I said:

"Implement" in this case just means leaving conky the way it is, with figures for used RAM that are going to surprise some people, but adding a commented-out line for those who'd rather see it the old way. But we're going to get some flak from the less informed reviewers. I guess we could reverse which line gets commented out, and change the comment, but it feels cheap.

But we can replace the free/awk hack in the commented-out line with ${legacymem}, for those who insist on seeing an artificially low figure.
Htop on Debian Bookworm is still showing a low RAM usage, but 'free -h -si' now agrees with conky ${mem}.

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We'll get the conky with its memory leak fixed pretty soon I expect, though that's a different issue.

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unklar

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Re: [done]Boron+conky+RAM

Done

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