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Fix size of the reported "buffers/cache" memory. #54

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It now reports only reclaimable memory, by excluding shared memory,
and including the reclaimable part of the SLAB cache.

So '$mem' with 'no_buffers yes' is now the "really used" (unreclaimable) memory.
And when reaching OOM conditions, conky will always report high memory usage.

Related post:
http://calimeroteknik.free.fr/blag/?article20/really-used-memory-on-gnu-linux

It now reports only reclaimable memory, by excluding shared memory,
and including the reclaimable part of the SLAB cache.

So '$mem' with 'no_buffers yes' is now the "really used" (unreclaimable) memory.
And when reaching OOM conditions, conky will always report high memory usage.

Related post:
http://calimeroteknik.free.fr/blag/?article20/really-used-memory-on-gnu-linux
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Thanks!

brndnmtthws added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 24, 2014
Fix size of the reported "buffers/cache" memory.
@brndnmtthws brndnmtthws merged commit 689b404 into brndnmtthws:master Jul 24, 2014
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