People usually confuse between Physical memory and Machine memory. The stats and accounting are different between the two layers.
Physical Memory Stats:
-Active, Balloon, Granted, Shared, Swapped, Usage
And Machine memory Stats:
-Consumed, Overhead, Shared Common.
Guest physical memory can be greater than machine memory due to memory overcomitment and page sharing. Memory Consumed is the actual amount of Machine Memory that has physical memory mapped to it.
Praivate memory = consumed memory - overhead consumption.
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shishir
