Memory Details Test
This test reports statistics pertaining to the memory utilization of target systems. The measures made by this test are as follows:
Target of the test : Any host system
Agent deploying the test : An internal agent
Outputs of the test : One set of results for every server being monitored
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Measurement | Description | Measurement Unit | Interpretation |
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Memory page ins: |
Indicates the number of times per second that a process needed to access a piece of memory that was not in its working set, meaning that the system had to retrieve it from the page file. |
Pages/Sec |
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Memory page outs: |
Indicates the number of times per second the system decided to trim a process's working set by writing some memory to disk in order to free up physical memory for another process. |
Pages/Sec |
This value is a critical measure of the memory utilization on a server. If this value never increases, then there is sufficient memory in the system. Instantaneous spikes of this value are acceptable, but if the value itself starts to rise over time or with load, it implies that there is a memory shortage on the server. |