High memory usage

[vulgur]

vtop always show high memory usage, mostly above 97%, which doesn't match the Activity Monitor.

[Eeems]

https://github.com/MrRio/vtop#i-think-you-should-change-cpu-percentage-to-how-apples-activity-monitor-works

This is a feature.

[acarl005]

I'm not a hardcore OS guy but I'm confused about the calculation of memory usage. I'm on MacOS and Activity Monitor, htop, and gtop are all showing a memory usage around 50%, while vtop is showing 99%. Are there multiple different interpretations for memory usage? If so, in what sense is vtop's interpretation most advantageous? Not hating, just interested in understanding differences/pros/cons here. Beautiful program btw!

[jameelmoses]

@Eeems that's CPU, not memory.

[Eeems]

@jameelmoses Good catch. Upon further looking, this is a duplicate of #95
As per that issue, this is probably because vtop is included cached memory in the metric where htop and the Activity Monitor report that separately.
Upon further looking #95 seems to be a duplicate of #11 and there is an enhancement request #15 that would help with this.

[pfych]

Fix in fork #128