RAM usage is occasionally represented as a negative value

Hi,

With this i3pystatus mem config:

status.register("mem", 
    format="RAM: {used_mem}/{total_mem} GiB", 
    color="#FFFFFF", 
    divisor=1073741824
    )

I get negative values for RAM usage in my i3status bar. Here is a screenshot to show it (I’ve circled or rather rectangled around it in red to point it out):

I have tried to fix this myself by throwing abs around the RHS of L48 and L50 of the mem.py file. It made no difference I’m afraid. This issue is intermittent, by-the-way, when I’ve just booted my system after several hours of it being off the issue is not there but after the system has been up for several hours the issue is there. Any ideas on how to fix this issue?

Thanks for your time, Brenton

[lasers]

>>> -4509715660.8 / (1024 ** 3)
-4.2  # GiB

I don’t see how it can be an issue with mem module. The values comes from psutil. https://psutil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#memory

I wanted to know if mem should keep printing occasional negative values or do we replace occasional negative values with 0 to make it easier for users? (i.e. hide negative values from users)

If you like https://github.com/lasers/i3pystatus/commit/ea46f44d4bf8bb9bcac043ae34a4ff583978b220, I can make a PR.

[fusion809]

With my present configs it isn’t.