How is kbmemused calculated in sar?

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Issue

  • Explanation of kbmemused in man 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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