Memory unit and monitor on system level

[iwangtoknow]

Hi there,

I have a question and a suggestion.

Question: how can I change the memory unit shown in the status bar? Now I have 1028096.00 MB I would like to see it in GB.

Suggestion: I am working on a node shared by multiple users. I would like to have the monitor also on the system instead of just my usage. Like the status shown in htop.

Cheers

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[perllaghu]

Interesting... I get the same
I hadn't noticed until now!

[iwangtoknow]

@perllaghu Hi, great you see it. Do you have any updates?

[perllaghu]

No..... I was going to look at this once I'd got a quieter period at work

[iwangtoknow]

Hi,
I don't know what happened but. The memory unit is now in GB.
Cheers

[mahendrapaipuri]

@iwangtoknow The format is automatically chosen based on memory usage.

[iwangtoknow]

@mahendrapaipuri Thanks for the clarification. It was in MB for a few days, afterwards, it was changed to GB. Do you have any comments/solutions on the system-level resource monitor?

Cheers

[iwangtoknow]

@mahendrapaipuri the function of unit auto-selection is not stable, today it jumps back to MB.

[nimpo]

+1 for monitoring memory availability for the whole system. In a multi-user environment, having sight of the system's available memory is useful especially is some of the other notebooks are being greedy.