fix wrong memory-documentation

[i3/i3status] / man / i3status.man

diff --git a/man/i3status.man b/man/i3status.man
index d1d62030130fcea8448830b9db6a67f4b5109ba5..9907dcd1d4dcc314dd30e9d01f494204efb443ac 100644 (file)
--- a/man/i3status.man
+++ b/man/i3status.man
@@ -24,13 +24,12 @@ configuration files in the following order:
 
 == DESCRIPTION
 
-i3status is a small program (about 1500 SLOC) for generating a status bar for
-i3bar, dzen2, xmobar, lemonbar or similar programs. It is designed to be very
-efficient by issuing a very small number of system calls, as one generally
-wants to update such a status line every second. This ensures that even under
-high load, your status bar is updated correctly. Also, it saves a bit of energy
-by not hogging your CPU as much as spawning the corresponding amount of shell
-commands would.
+i3status is a small program for generating a status bar for i3bar, dzen2,
+xmobar, lemonbar or similar programs. It is designed to be very efficient by
+issuing a very small number of system calls, as one generally wants to update
+such a status line every second. This ensures that even under high load, your
+status bar is updated correctly. Also, it saves a bit of energy by not hogging
+your CPU as much as spawning the corresponding amount of shell commands would.
 
 == CONFIGURATION
 
@@ -56,6 +55,7 @@ order += "wireless wlan0"
 order += "ethernet eth0"
 order += "battery 0"
 order += "cpu_temperature 0"
+order += "memory"
 order += "load"
 order += "tztime local"
 order += "tztime berlin"
@@ -114,6 +114,12 @@ cpu_temperature 0 {
        path = "/sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/temp1_input"
 }
 
+memory {
+        format = "%used"
+        threshold_degraded = "10%"
+        format_degraded = "MEMORY: %free"
+}
+
 disk "/" {
        format = "%free"
 }
@@ -193,6 +199,7 @@ double-quote (""") characters need to be replaced with "`&`", "`<`",
 for generated content (e.g. wireless ESSID, time).
 
 *Example configuration*:
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------
 general {
     output_format = "xmobar"
@@ -305,8 +312,9 @@ network interface found on the system (excluding devices starting with "lo").
 === Ethernet
 
 Gets the IP address and (if possible) the link speed of the given ethernet
-interface. Getting the link speed requires the cap_net_admin capability. Set
-it using +setcap cap_net_admin=ep $(which i3status)+.
+interface. If no IPv4 address is available and an IPv6 address is, it will be
+displayed. Getting the link speed requires the cap_net_admin capability.
+Set it using +setcap cap_net_admin=ep $(which i3status)+.
 
 The special interface name `_first_` will be replaced by the first non-wireless
 network interface found on the system (excluding devices starting with "lo").
@@ -424,6 +432,45 @@ starting from %cpu0. This feature is currently not supported in FreeBSD.
 
 *Example format_above_degraded_threshold*: +Warning above degraded threshold: %usage+
 
+=== Memory
+
+Gets the memory usage from system on a Linux system from +/proc/meminfo+. Other
+systems are currently not supported.
+
+As format placeholders, +total+, +used+, +free+, +available+ and +shared+ are
+available. These will print human readable values. It's also possible to prefix
+the placeholders with +percentage_+ to get a value in percent.
+
+It's possible to define a +threshold_degraded+ and a +threshold_critical+ to
+color the status bar output in yellow or red, if the available memory falls
+below the given threshold. Possible values of the threshold can be any integer,
+suffixed with an iec symbol (+T+, +G+, +M+, +K+). Alternatively, the integer
+can be suffixed by a percent sign, which then rets evaluated relatively to
+total memory.
+
+If the +format_degraded+ parameter is given and either the critical or the
+degraded threshold applies, +format_degraded+ will get used as format string.
+It acts equivalently to +format+.
+
+As Linux' meminfo doesn't expose the overall memory in use, there are multiple
+methods to distinguish the actually used memory. 
+
+*Example memory_used_method*: +memavailable+ ("total memory" - "MemAvailable", matches +free+ command)
+
+*Example memory_used_method*: +classical+ ("total memory" - "free" - "buffers" - "cache", matches gnome system monitor)
+
+*Example order*: +memory+
+
+*Example format*: +%free %available (%used) / %total+
+
+*Example format*: +%percentage_used used, %percentage_free free, %percentage_shared shared+
+
+*Example threshold_degraded*: +10%+
+
+*Example threshold_critical*: +5%+
+
+*Example format_degraded*: +Memory LOW: %free+
+
 === Load
 
 Gets the system load (number of processes waiting for CPU time in the last