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Table A-6. Memory Panel Statistics
Field Description
PMEM (MB) Displays the machine memory statistics for the server. All numbers are in megabytes.
total Total amount of machine memory in the server.
cos Amount of machine memory allocated to the ESX service console.
vmk Amount of machine memory being used by the ESX/ESXi
VMkernel.
other Amount of machine memory being used by everything other than
the ESX service console and ESX/ESXi VMkernel.
free Amount of machine memory that is free.
VMKMEM (MB) Displays the machine memory statistics for the ESX/ESXi VMkernel. All numbers are in
megabytes.
managed Total amount of machine memory managed by the ESX/ESXi
VMkernel.
min free Minimum amount of machine memory that the ESX/ESXi
VMkernel aims to keep free.
rsvd Total amount of machine memory currently reserved by resource
pools.
ursvd Total amount of machine memory currently unreserved.
state Current machine memory availability state. Possible values are
high, soft, hard and low. High means that the machine memory
is not under any pressure and low means that it is.
COSMEM (MB) Displays the memory statistics as reported by the ESX service console. All numbers are in
megabytes. This field is not displayed if you are using ESXi.
free Amount of idle memory.
swap_t Total swap configured.
swap_f Amount of swap free.
r/s is Rate at which memory is swapped in from disk.
w/s Rate at which memory is swapped to disk.
NUMA (MB) Displays the ESX/ESXi NUMA statistics. This line appears only if the ESX/ESXi host is running
on a NUMA server. All numbers are in megabytes.
For each NUMA node in the server, two statistics are displayed:
n The total amount of machine memory in the NUMA node that is managed by ESX/ESXi.
n The amount of machine memory in the node that is currently free (in parentheses).
PSHARE (MB) Displays the ESX/ESXi page-sharing statistics. All numbers are in megabytes.
shared Amount of physical memory that is being shared.
common Amount of machine memory that is common across worlds.
saving Amount of machine memory that is saved because of page
sharing.
Appendix A Performance Monitoring Utilities: resxtop and esxtop
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