System Monitor is showing wrong Memory info. Actual is 8 GB showing 8.2GB.

[Naman Singh]

System Monitor is showing wrong Memory info. Actual is 8(7.6) GB showing 8.2 GB.
Current OS version - Ubuntu 21.10.

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 20.10 (groovy) reached end-of-life on July 22, 2021.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in.

[Naman Singh (namansingh35)]

Sorry, it was a typing mistake. I am using Ubuntu 21.10. I have attached a screenshot of system details and System Monitor.

[Naman Singh (namansingh35)]

Sorry, it was a typing mistake. I am using Ubuntu 21.10. I have attached a
screenshot of system details and System Monitor.

On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 at 08:10, Chris Guiver <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
>
> Ubuntu 20.10 (groovy) reached end-of-life on July 22, 2021.
>
> See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
>
> We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested
> in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the
> latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still
> present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling
> us which new version it is in.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Status: New => Incomplete
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1948539
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> Title:
> System Monitor is showing wrong Memory info. Actual is 8 GB showing
> 8.2GB. Current OS - Ubuntu 20.10
>
> Status in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> System Monitor is showing wrong Memory info. Actual is 8(7.6) GB showing
> 8.2 GB.
> Current OS version - Ubuntu 20.10.
>
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[Munch (graystripe)]

I'm having the same issue on 22.04.1 LTS with gnome-system-monitor version 42. I have 32GB of RAM installed and system monitor reports 33.4GB for some reason.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

You can change the units in the settings