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While I'm thinking of it, alsi's colored output (green, yellow, red) of memory/disk usage has not worked for me since installing. It works in archey and archey3, so I think there's a config issue with alsi. Any ideas?

@trizen: That did the trick. Thanks.

@graysky: it's hard to add new partitions in alsi. the concept is broken by design, but you can add the following in ~/.config/alsi/alsi.output: {OTHER => sprintf("%%sSWAP:%%s %dM / %dM (%d%%)",split(' ',`tail -1 /proc/swaps|awk '{print\$4/1024,\$3/1024,\$4/\$3*100}'`))}, @steadybright: you get a negative value for the used RAM because alsi thinks that: MemFree + MemAvailable + Buffers == $free_mem which results in $free_mem being greater than MemTotal, which is wrong (however, this method used to be true once in the old days). Using the 'free -m' may be a better solution. Add the following line (and remove the old line {RAM => '...}) in ~/.config/alsi/alsi.output: {OTHER => sprintf('%%sRAM:%%s %dM / %dM (%d%%)', split(' ', `free -m|head -2|tail -1|awk '{print\$3,\$2,\$3/\$2*100}'`))}, To get the used RAM without the cached RAM, use: {OTHER => sprintf('%%sRAM:%%s %dM / %dM (%d%%)', split(' ', `free -m|head -2|tail -1|awk '{print\$3-\$7,\$2,(\$3-\$7)/\$2*100}'`))},

1st three lines of meminfo: MemTotal: 3948296 kB MemFree: 3380892 kB MemAvailable: 3621028 kB It looks as I would expect. htop, archey, and archey3 all agree within a few MB; only alsi differs. Am I missing something obvious?

It may be a kernel bug. See the first three lines of /proc/meminfo.