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Frequently Asked Questions
Dylan Araps edited this page Jan 19, 2017
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"*insert program* shows different memory amounts to Neofetch."
The correct way to calculate memory usage (and what Neofetch currently does) on Linux is the following:
MemUsed = Memtotal + Shmem - MemFree - Buffers - Cached - SReclaimableUntil late 2016 htop, conky, Screenfetch, Neofetch and a lot of other programs were displaying the incorrect memory usage amount. Almost all of the programs I could find have been updated to fix this but there are still a few programs displaying incorrect usage. Those of you using older versions of these programs are probably where this question comes from.
Source: KittyKatt/screenFetch/issues/386
TL;DR: Yes