System Administration

Essential System Tools: nmon – Curses based Performance Monitor

Virtual Memory Stats

Virtual memory is typically consumed by processes, file system caches, and the kernel. Virtual memory utilization depends on a number of factors such as swappiness, min_free_kbytes, dirty_ratio, dirty_background_ratio, and others.

You access virtual memory stats by pressing V (capital v).

nmon16h-Virtual-Memory-Stats

This information is not targeted at desktop users.

Next page: Page 8 – Network Stats

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – CPU Stats
Page 4 – Memory Stats
Page 5 – Disk Stats
Page 6 – Kernel Internal Stats
Page 7 – Virtual Memory Stats
Page 8 – Network Stats
Page 9 – Top-processes
Page 10 – Resources
Page 11 – Summary

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Mark Regan
Mark Regan
4 years ago

What terminal/window settings do I use in PuTTY when running nmon to get the correct line drawing?