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This graph shows what the machine uses memory for.

Note: This service is in WARNING state because one of the values reported is outside the allowed range. Please see further down for information about the ranges and the graph for the values.

Field Internal name Type Warn Crit Info
apps apps gauge
  Memory used by user-space applications.
page_tables page_tables gauge
  Memory used to map between virtual and physical memory addresses.
per_cpu per_cpu gauge
  Per CPU allocations
swap_cache swap_cache gauge
  A piece of memory that keeps track of pages that have been fetched from swap but not yet been modified.
slab_cache slab gauge
  Memory used by the kernel (major users are caches like inode, dentry, etc).
shmem shmem gauge
  Shared Memory (SYSV SHM segments, tmpfs).
cache cached gauge
  Parked file data (file content) cache.
buffers buffers gauge
  Block device (e.g. harddisk) cache. Also where "dirty" blocks are stored until written.
unused free gauge
  Wasted memory. Memory that is not used for anything at all.
swap swap gauge
2147481600
  Swap space used.
vmalloc_used vmalloc_used gauge
  'VMalloc' (kernel) memory used
committed committed gauge
  The amount of memory allocated to programs. Overcommitting is normal, but may indicate memory leaks.
mapped mapped gauge
  All mmap()ed pages.
active active gauge
  Memory recently used. Not reclaimed unless absolutely necessary.
inactive inactive gauge
  Memory not currently used.