To me this sounds a lot like vbox and zfs arc are fighting for resources. What does the memory line in top look like when this problem happens?
A simple workaround would be to limit zfs arc in loader.conf if that is the problem. Am 22.09.2015 5:13 nachm. schrieb "Martin Birgmeier" <[email protected]>: > > This did not happen when the machine was running FreeBSD 9.2 with virtualbox-ose-4.3.20 installed. So I would not qualify this as "known behavior". > > One server has 16G main memory, a VM gets 3G. The other has 8G main mem and again 3G allocated to the VM. > > This is definitely a bug in how VirtualBox handles memory on FreeBSD 10. I am pretty sure that something changed in FBSD 10 which was not properly taken care of in VB. > > -- Martin > > > > On 09/21/15 22:10, Mark Felder wrote: > > > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2015, at 06:20, Martin Birgmeier wrote: > >> On machines where VirtualBox is running, I get memory allocation errors. > >> > >> 'dd' aborts with 'dd: stdout: Cannot allocate memory' > >> > >> 'zfs send' aborts with 'internal error: Cannot allocate memory' > >> > >> I have created https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195970 > >> to track this. > >> > >> Could a knowledgeable person please have a look into this? > >> > >> FreeBSD 10.2, VirtualBox 4.3.30 > >> > >> -- Martin > >> > > I'm not an expert, but I think this is known behavior. Virtualbox > > requires a huge contiguous chunk of memory for the VM and that's > > probably what you're running into. > > > > Can you give more information about the specs of the server itself and > > the amount of resources allocated to VMs? > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " [email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
