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Table A-2. Interactive Mode Command-Line Options (Continued)
Option Description
a
Show all statistics. This option overrides configuration file setups and shows all statistics. The
configuration file can be the default ~/.esxtop4rc configuration file or a user-defined configuration
file.
c
<filename> Load a user-defined configuration file. If the -c option is not used, the default configuration
filename is ~/.esxtop4rc. Create your own configuration file, specifying a different filename, using
the
W
single-key interactive command.
Common Statistics Description
Several statistics appear on the different panels while
resxtop
(or
esxtop
) is running in interactive mode. These
statistics are common across all four panels.
The Uptime line, found at the top of each of the four
resxtop
(or
esxtop
) panels, displays the current time, time
since last reboot, number of currently running worlds and load averages. A world is an ESX/ESXi VMkernel
schedulable entity, similar to a process or thread in other operating systems.
Below that the load averages over the past one, five, and fifteen minutes appear. Load averages take into
account both running and ready-to-run worlds. A load average of 1.00 means that there is full utilization of
all physical CPUs. A load average of 2.00 means that the ESX/ESXi system might need twice as many physical
CPUs as are currently available. Similarly, a load average of 0.50 means that the physical CPUs on the ESX/ESXi
system are half utilized.
Statistics Columns and Order Pages
You can define the order of fields displayed in interactive mode.
If you press
f
,
F
,
o
, or
O
, the system displays a page that specifies the field order on the top line and short
descriptions of the field contents. If the letter in the field string corresponding to a field is uppercase, the field
is displayed. An asterisk in front of the field description indicates whether a field is displayed.
The order of the fields corresponds to the order of the letters in the string.
From the Field Select panel, you can:
n
Toggle the display of a field by pressing the corresponding letter.
n
Move a field to the left by pressing the corresponding uppercase letter.
n
Move a field to the right by pressing the corresponding lowercase letter.
Interactive Mode Single-Key Commands
When running in interactive mode,
resxtop
(or
esxtop
) recognizes several single-key commands.
All interactive mode panels recognize the commands listed in Table A-3 . The command to specify the delay
between updates is disabled if the
s
option is given on the command line. All sorting interactive commands
sort in descending order.
Table A-3. Interactive Mode Single-Key Commands
Key Description
h or ? Displays a help menu for the current panel, giving a brief summary of commands, and the status of secure mode.
space Immediately updates the current panel.
^L Erases and redraws the current panel.
f or F Displays a panel for adding or removing statistics columns (fields) to or from the current panel.
o or O Displays a panel for changing the order of statistics columns on the current panel.
Appendix A Performance Monitoring Utilities: resxtop and esxtop
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