Proxmox Memory GUI INFO

[Nixon Girard]

Why the memory information of a VM in the GUI is not the same as what I have inside a Linux VM for example?

In the GUI always show an average of 70 to 80% in use and within the VMs shows only 20% to 30%

 

[dcsapak]

how do you measure inside the vm?

 

[Nixon Girard]

Does the GUI show the total memory allocated and not the actual memory usage of the VM?

 

[Nixon Girard]

See this other situation

 

[Ashley]

If you install qemu agent as per : https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent

 

[fireon]

Why the memory information of a VM in the GUI is not the same as what I have inside a Linux VM for example?
In the GUI always show an average of 70 to 80% in use and within the VMs shows only 20% to 30%

It's normal, and yes it is confusing... that is how memory in linux works. The problem is that everthing is cached, not really used this time but cached. The only one monitoring that works good with displaying real memory (it's a calculation) is Check_MK. For example, nagios have the same problem.