Github user kkhatua commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/1160 During a freshly setup Drillbit: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4335237/37847547-644fa67c-2e8e-11e8-9aa7-2b4adf499cd0.png) While running 2 large (600M rows) join query on a 4 node setup, and one completes: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4335237/37847633-b4dd5a76-2e8e-11e8-9c1d-87c3a0f9f3e7.png) The Heap Usage percentage is based on {{heapUsed/heapMax}} The Actively Used Direct percentage is based on {{currentDirectInUse/PeakDirectUsed}} This is because the actual total direct memory used by Netty is not exposed. However, this does tell how much the Drillbit is using at the moment.
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