Very specific conky question...[Closed]

[manyroads]

Because of the prototypes (Desktops I'm building) I want my Conky "RAM used " calculation/formula to match the data provided by htop.

Does anyone have that figured out? Mother google does not readily provide me with a pointer....

[Eadwine Rose]

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${color Tan1}Ram in use         ${color}${mem} / $memmax

That is my ramline.

That sounds wrong..



edit: no_buffers are on false here

[skidoo]

top result when I websearched "conky ram vs htop":
https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/130
discusses the effect of toggling the "no_buffers=" configuration parameter

[PondLife]

Just tried opening a few different apps and my conky looks like it's the same as the output from htop.

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${font Terminus:size=12}${color #99CC99}Memory ${hr 2} ${alignr}${font}$color
 
${offset 20}$mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc%
${offset 20}$membar
 
${offset 20}${top_mem name 1}$alignr${top_mem mem 1}%
${offset 20}${top_mem name 2}$alignr${top_mem mem 2}%
${offset 20}${top_mem name 3}$alignr${top_mem mem 3}%
${offset 20}${top_mem name 4}$alignr${top_mem mem 4}%

${font Terminus:size=12}${color #99CC99}Swap ${hr 2} ${alignr}${font}$color

${offset 20}$swap / $swapmax $alignr $swapperc%
${offset 20}$swapbar

[manyroads]

I have the

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 $mem / $memmax 

and it does not match htop. It is off by some 30%.

I did try @skidoo's recommended solution:

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[[${mem} / ${memwithbuffers} / ${memmax} :: SWAP ${swap}/${swapmax}]

But I can't make it do anything other than echo the command stream.

btw. I did come across this in my search which looks pretty interesting:
https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/wiki/Configs

[Eadwine Rose]

I see yes, the difference.

Placing the memwithbuffers bit in mem's place gives me the same result as the sole mem does, so that doesn't seem to help.

[manyroads]

Here's a screenshot of what I see...

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htop shows 1.18GB RAM... conky 1.48GB

[Eadwine Rose]

I've googled a bit, it seems to be a tough nut to crack.. htop shows the mem value minus other values, apparently.

[manyroads]

I've googled a bit, it seems to be a tough nut to crack.. htop shows the mem value minus other values, apparently.

I agree... I'm not certain which value is viewed as being correct. Is it htop or Conky? antiX folks seem to like htop. I think that's fine, but there must be a forumal we can devise to make conky's results match htop (or vice versa).

btw. how many angels can stand on the head of a pin???? :lipsrsealed:

[PondLife]

Have now checked that conky and htop match on both my desktop & laptop so maybe you could swap out your .conkyrc with the one below just to see if its the same for you.

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conky.config = {
    alignment =  'top_right',
    maximum_width = 260,
    border_width = 0,
    font = 'Terminus:size=10',
    gap_x = 20,
    gap_y = 10,
 
    own_window = true,
    own_window_class = 'Conky',
    own_window_type =  'override',
        own_window_transparent = true,
 
    double_buffer = yes,
    background = true,
    use_xft = true,
    xftalpha = 0,
    update_interval = 1.0,
    total_run_times = 0,
    double_buffer = true,
    draw_shades = true,
    draw_outline = true,
    draw_borders = false,
    draw_graph_borders = true,
    no_buffers = true,
    cpu_avg_samples = 2,
    override_utf8_locale = true,
    use_spacer =  'right'
}
 
conky.text = [[
${font Terminus:size=14}${color #99CC99}$nodename ${hr 2} ${alignr}${font}$color
 
${alignc}${font Terminus:size=28}${color #ffffff}${time %H:%M}${font}
${alignc}${time %A %d %B %Y}

${offset 20}Kernel:$alignr${kernel}
${offset 20}Uptime:$alignr$uptime
 
${font Terminus:size=12}${color #99CC99}CPU ${hr 2} ${alignr}${font}$color
 
 
${offset 20}Core 1 (${cpu cpu1}%) $alignr Core 2 (${cpu cpu2}%)
${offset 20}${cpugraph cpu1 25,100}$alignr${cpugraph cpu2 25,100}

 
${offset 20}${top name 1}$alignr${top cpu 1}%
${offset 20}${top name 2}$alignr${top cpu 2}%
${offset 20}${top name 3}$alignr${top cpu 3}%
${offset 20}${top name 4}$alignr${top cpu 4}%
 
${font Terminus:size=12}${color #99CC99}Memory ${hr 2} ${alignr}${font}$color
 
${offset 20}$mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc%
${offset 20}$membar
 
${offset 20}${top_mem name 1}$alignr${top_mem mem 1}%
${offset 20}${top_mem name 2}$alignr${top_mem mem 2}%
${offset 20}${top_mem name 3}$alignr${top_mem mem 3}%
${offset 20}${top_mem name 4}$alignr${top_mem mem 4}%

${font Terminus:size=12}${color #99CC99}Swap ${hr 2} ${alignr}${font}$color

${offset 20}$swap / $swapmax $alignr $swapperc%
${offset 20}$swapbar
 
${font Terminus:size=12}${color #99CC99}Storage ${hr 2} ${alignr}${font}$color
 
${offset 20}/ $alignc ${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /}%
${offset 20}${fs_bar /}
${offset 20}/home $alignc ${fs_used /home} /home ${fs_size /home} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /home}%
${offset 20}${fs_bar /home}
 
${color #99CC99}${if_up wlan0}wlan0 (${addr wlan0}) ${hr 2}$color
 
${offset 20}${color white}$color ${downspeed wlan0}${alignr}${color 333333}$color ${upspeed wlan0}
${offset 20}${downspeedgraph wlan0 25,100} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlan0 25,100}$color${endif}
 
${color #99CC99}${if_up eth0}eth0 (${addr eth0}) ${hr 2}$color
 
${offset 20}${color white}$color ${downspeed eth0}${alignr}${color 333333}$color ${upspeed eth0}
${offset 20}${downspeedgraph eth0 25,100} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 25,100}$color${endif}
]]

This conky originated at https://pastebin.com/S88Yj0b8 which I then modified (with my very limited conky knowledge) to include the time & date,two cpu core and separate /home.