Specifications

Administration Guide
356 VMware, Inc.
Monitoring Memory Statistics
The!VMware!Management!Interface!provides!information!on!the!current!use!of!RAM!
by!the!physical!computer!and!the!virtual!machines!running!on!it.!View!the!Status!
Monitor!page!in!the!management!interface.
Figure 12-3. Status Monitor tab
The!System!Summary!section!shows!systemwide!information.!The!Virtual!Machines!
section!below!it!shows!information!for!particular!virtual!
machines.!
You!can!read!the!current!memory!statistics!for!a!virtual!machine!from!its!status!file!on!
the!service!console.!For!example,!to!view!the!statistics!for!the!virtual!machine!with!ID!
103,!use!this!command:
cat /proc/vmware/vm/103/mem/status
The!results!appear!in!the!following!format:
vm mctl? shares min max size/sizetgt
217300/217300
103 yes 2560 131072 262144
memctl/mctltgt swapped/swaptgt swapin swapout
39168/ 39168 5672/ 5672 13289 18961
cptread/cpt‐tgt shared active overhd/ovhdmax ovhdpeak affinity
0/ 0 38164 191756 14508/ 55296 14508 0