eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by KVMMemoryTest

This test reports the memory usage of the KVM server and enables administrators to identify whether/not adequate memory resources are available on the KVM server host for use by the virtual machines.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Tot_phy_mem Indicates the total amount of physical memory that is allocated for this KVM server. MB  
Tot_config_mem Indicates the total amount of memory that is configured for this KVM server. MB  
Used_mem Indicates the amount of physical memory that is currently used by the KVM server. MB Ideally, the value of this measure should be low.

The detailed diagnosis of this measure if enabled, lists the VMs and their current memory usage.
Free_mem Indicates the amount of physical memory that is currently available for use in this KVM server. MB A high value is desired for this measure.
Mem_util Indicates the percentage of physical memory that is utilized by this KVM server. Percent A very high value for this measure indicates a shortage of memory resources. If more memory is not made available soon, then this could significantly degrade the performance of the virtual machines hosted on this server.

The detailed diagnosis of this measure if enabled, lists the top 10 memory consuming processes, the PIDs of the processes and the memory utilized by each process.