diff --git a/Action.c b/Action.c
index 441c8f1c1..b1948cd63 100644
--- a/Action.c
+++ b/Action.c
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ static Htop_Reaction actionHelp(State* st) {
    addbartext(CRT_colors[MEMORY_COMPRESSED], "/", "compressed");
    addbartext(CRT_colors[MEMORY_BUFFERS_TEXT], "/", "buffers");
    addbartext(CRT_colors[MEMORY_CACHE], "/", "cache");
-   addbartext(CRT_colors[BAR_SHADOW], "          ", "used");
+   addbartext(CRT_colors[BAR_SHADOW], "       ", "claimed");
    addbartext(CRT_colors[BAR_SHADOW], "/", "total");
    addattrstr(CRT_colors[BAR_BORDER], "]");
 
diff --git a/MemoryMeter.c b/MemoryMeter.c
index 4b0e9d0f1..b6df18a43 100644
--- a/MemoryMeter.c
+++ b/MemoryMeter.c
@@ -40,13 +40,16 @@ static void MemoryMeter_updateValues(Meter* this) {
       "MEMORY_METER_AVAILABLE is not the last item in MemoryMeterValues");
    this->curItems = MEMORY_METER_AVAILABLE;
 
-   /* we actually want to show "used + compressed" */
-   double used = this->values[MEMORY_METER_USED];
+   /* we actually want to show "used + shared + compressed" */
+   double claimed = this->values[MEMORY_METER_USED];
+   if (!isnan(this->values[MEMORY_METER_SHARED])) {
+      claimed += this->values[MEMORY_METER_SHARED];
+   }
    if (!isnan(this->values[MEMORY_METER_COMPRESSED])) {
-      used += this->values[MEMORY_METER_COMPRESSED];
+      claimed += this->values[MEMORY_METER_COMPRESSED];
    }
 
-   written = Meter_humanUnit(buffer, used, size);
+   written = Meter_humanUnit(buffer, claimed, size);
    METER_BUFFER_CHECK(buffer, size, written);
 
    METER_BUFFER_APPEND_CHR(buffer, size, '/');