NAME¶
lsmem - list the ranges of available memory with their online status.
SYNOPSIS¶
lsmem [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION¶
The lsmem command lists the ranges of available memory with their online status.
The listed memory blocks correspond to the memory block representation in
sysfs. The command also shows the memory block size, the device size, and the
amount of memory in online and offline state.
Column description¶
- Address Range
- Start and end address of the memory range.
- Size
- Size of the memory range in MB (1024 x 1024 bytes).
- State
- Indication of the online status of the memory range. State
on->off means that the address range is in transition from online to
offline.
- Removable
- "yes" if the memory range can be set offline,
"no" if it cannot be set offline. A dash ("-") means
that the range is already offline.
- Device
- Device number or numbers that correspond to the memory
range.
Each device represents a memory unit for the hypervisor in control of the
memory. The hypervisor cannot reuse a memory unit unless the corresponding
memory range is completely offline. For best memory utilization, each
device should either be completely online or completely offline.
The chmem command with the size parameter automatically chooses the best
suited device or devices when setting memory online or offline. The device
size depends on the hypervisor and on the amount of total online and
offline memory.
OPTIONS¶
- -a, --all
- List each individual memory block, instead of combining
memory blocks with similar attributes.
- -h, --help
- Print a short help text, then exit.
- -v, --version
- Print the version number, then exit.
SEE ALSO¶
chmem(8)