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Table 8‑4. CPU Panel Statistics (Continued)
Line Description
NAME Name of the resource pool or virtual machine of the world that is running, or name of the world that is
running.
NWLD Number of members in the resource pool or virtual machine of the world that is running. If a Group is
expanded using the interactive command e, then NWLD for all the resulting worlds is 1.
%STATE TIMES Set of CPU statistics made up of the following percentages. For a world, the percentages are a percentage
of one physical CPU core.
%USED Percentage of physical CPU core cycles used by the resource pool, virtual machine, or world. %USED
might depend on the frequency with which the CPU core is running. When running with lower CPU core
frequency, %USED can be smaller than %RUN. On CPUs which support the turbo mode, CPU frequency
can also be higher than the nominal (rated) frequency, and %USED can be larger than %RUN.
%USED = %RUN + %SYS - %OVRLP
%SYS Percentage of time spent in the ESXi VMkernel on behalf of the resource pool, virtual machine, or world to
process interrupts and to perform other system activities. This time is part of the time used to calculate
%USED.
%USED = %RUN + %SYS - %OVRLP
%WAIT Percentage of time the resource pool, virtual machine, or world spent in the blocked or busy wait state.
This percentage includes the percentage of time the resource pool, virtual machine, or world was idle.
100% = %RUN + %RDY + %CSTP + %WAIT
%VMWAIT The total percentage of time the Resource Pool/World spent in a blocked state waiting for events.
%IDLE Percentage of time the resource pool, virtual machine, or world was idle. Subtract this percentage from
%WAIT to see the percentage of time the resource pool, virtual machine, or world was waiting for some
event. The difference, %WAIT- %IDLE, of the VCPU worlds can be used to estimate guest I/O wait time.
To find the VCPU worlds, use the single-key command e to expand a virtual machine and search for the
world NAME starting with "vcpu". (The VCPU worlds might wait for other events in addition to I/O events,
so this measurement is only an estimate.)
%RDY Percentage of time the resource pool, virtual machine, or world was ready to run, but was not provided
CPU resources on which to execute.
100% = %RUN + %RDY + %CSTP + %WAIT
%MLMTD (max
limited)
Percentage of time the ESXi VMkernel deliberately did not run the resource pool, virtual machine, or world
because doing so would violate the resource pool, virtual machine, or world's limit setting. Because the
resource pool, virtual machine, or world is ready to run when it is prevented from running in this way, the
%MLMTD (max limited) time is included in %RDY time.
%SWPWT Percentage of time a resource pool or world spends waiting for the ESXi VMkernel to swap memory. The
%SWPWT (swap wait) time is included in the %WAIT time.
EVENT COUNTS/s Set of CPU statistics made up of per second event rates. These statistics are for VMware internal use only.
CPU ALLOC Set of CPU statistics made up of the following CPU allocation configuration parameters.
AMIN Resource pool, virtual machine, or world attribute Reservation.
AMAX Resource pool, virtual machine, or world attribute Limit. A value of -1 means unlimited.
ASHRS Resource pool, virtual machine, or world attribute Shares.
SUMMARY STATS Set of CPU statistics made up of the following CPU configuration parameters and statistics. These
statistics apply only to worlds and not to virtual machines or resource pools.
AFFINITY BIT MASK Bit mask showing the current scheduling affinity for the world.
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