Counters and Categories for Memory Performance

This table contains the values for each category of the counters that measure Memory performance.  

GROUP NAME: mem

Counter Name Category Value
usage
unit percent
description Memory currently in use. This is active memory as a percentage of total available memory.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity host, virtual machine, ResGroup
granted
unit KB
description Amount of memory available for use.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity host, virtual machine, ResGroup
active
unit KB
description Amount of memory that is actively used.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity host, virtual machine, ResGroup
shared
unit KB
description Amount of shared memory.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity host, virtual machine, ResGroup
zero
unit KB
description zero memory
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity host, virtual machine, ResGroup
unreserved
unit KB
description Amount of unreserved memory.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity host
swapunreserved
unit KB
description Amount of unreserved swap space.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity host
swapused
unit KB
description Amount of memory used for swap space.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity host
sharedcommon
unit KB
description Amount of shared, common memory.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity host
heap
unit KB
description Amount of memory allocated for heap.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity host
heapfree
unit KB
description Free space in the heap.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity host
state
unit number
description Memory state.
statistic type absolute
rollup type summation
entity host
swapped
unit KB
description Amount of memory being swapped.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity virtual machine, ResGroup
swaptarget
unit KB
description Amount of memory that can be swapped.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity virtual machine, ResGroup
swapin
unit KB
description Amount of memory swapped in.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity virtual machine, ResGroup
swapout
unit KB
description Amount of memory swapped out.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity virtual machine, ResGroup
vmmemctl
unit KB
description Amount of memory currently used by the virtual machine memory control.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity virtual machine, ResGroup
vmmemctltarget
unit KB
description Amount of memory that can be used by the virtual machine memory control.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity virtual machine, ResGroup
consumed
unit KB
description Amount of host memory consumed by the virtual machine for guest memory.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity virtual machine, ResGroup
overhead
unit KB
description Amount of memory that is overhead.
statistic type absolute
rollup type all
entity host, virtual machine, ResGroup
reservedCapacity
unit MB
description Amount of memory that is reserved capacity.
statistic type absolute
rollup type average
entity host, virtual machine, ResGroup