This article contains a list of some of the performance counters provided by esxtop. This is far from exhaustive, as this list was created to answer the question: "which are the most important esxtop counters?" Recently VMware has published an exhaustive list of esxtop information on Interpreting esxtop Statistics
. Check that out for more information.
I got this from support.
SWTCH/s switches number of world switches (out of run state)
The value is typically below 100.
MIG/s migrate total number of migrationsMigrations can be of two types (a) intra: across the cores on the same socket (b) across cores on different sockets. This captures both. Currently , we dont distinguish between cores on the same socket or across sockets. We distinguish between migrations across cores and migrations across "cells". "cell" is a logical grouping of cores (4 cores by default) done by the cpu scheduler to aid in co-scheduling.
PMIG/s processor-migrations number of inter-core migrations
MIGI/s wakeup-migrate-idle number of migrations on wakeup
QEXP/s quantum-expires number of quantum expirations
WAKE/s wakeups number of wakeups (from wait state)
I Agree
Why are those counters not explained? i have been googleing it like crazy without any results.
Hi Scott,
Thanks for sharing this. I've been searching for the meaning of the following CPU counters:
SWTCH/s
MIG/s
PMIG/s
WMIGI/s
WAKE/s
All are CPU counters in vSphere 4. What values should be considered healthy?
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