Essential System Tools: nmon – Curses based Performance Monitor

Last Updated on November 25, 2022

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).

This information is not targeted at desktop users.

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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