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Using the xm Command-Line Interface
5-2 Oracle VM Server User's Guide
# xm pause mydomain
See "xm" in Appendix A, "Command-Line Tools" for detailed information on the xm
command-line interface.
5.2.1 Monitoring Domains
The
xm top
command performs real time monitoring of domain loads on a host. The
xm top
command displays the following information:
■
The state of each domain.
■
The number of domains on the host.
■
Memory statistics of the host, such as the total available memory, the memory in
use, and free memory.
■
The CPU statistics of the host, such as the number of CPUs and CPU speed.
■
Information on each domain, such as domain name, domain state, CPU usage in
seconds, percentage of CPU, memory in Kilobytes, and so on.
For example, an
xm top
command displays output similar to:
Figure 5–1 Example xm top Command Output
Note that the format of each line of output wraps over two lines.
5.2.2 Viewing Host Information
Use the
xm info
,
xm log
, and
xm dmesg
commands to display information about
the host computer. For example, the
xm info
command displays output similar to the
following: