Github user kkhatua commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/1160 During a freshly setup Drillbit:  While running 2 large (600M rows) join query on a 4 node setup, and one completes:  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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