How is kbmemused calculated in sar?
Issue
- Explanation of
kbmemused
inman sar
has changed in RHEL9. - How is the value calculated? What is the difference compared with the older version?
RHEL8 and older version
# man sar
...
kbmemused
Amount of used memory in kilobytes. This does not take into account memory used by the kernel
itself.
RHEL9
# man sar
...
kbmemused
Amount of used memory in kilobytes (calculated as total installed memory - kbmemfree - kb‐
buffers - kbcached - kbslab).
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- sysstat-12.5.4-5.el9
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