Our monitoring group is using /usr/bin/free -b and alert on that. Am I correct that this command run on an ESX Host is only reporting on Service Console memory?
[root@esxHost root]# /usr/bin/free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 781 766 14 0 1 52
-/+ buffers/cache: 712 68
Swap: 1600 204 1395
Don't think it matters for this discussion but it is a legacy ESX 3.5 Hosts.