https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437469

--- Comment #5 from Arjen Hiemstra <ahiems...@heimr.nl> ---
>From the "free" manpage:

> used   Used memory (calculated as total - free - buffers - cache)

vs:

> available     Estimation of how much memory is available for starting new 
> applications, without swapping. Unlike the data provided by the cache or free 
> fields, this field takes into account page cache and also that not all 
> reclaimable memory slabs will be reclaimed due to items being in use 
> (MemAvailable in /proc/meminfo, available on kernels 3.14, emulated on 
> kernels 2.6.27+, otherwise the same as free)

Or in other words, free does the same thing ksysguard did, which is actually an
incorrect representation of the amount of memory used because as the free
manual states, there are several things to consider when looking at the actual
available memory.

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