Am Montag, 29. Dezember 2003 14:15 schrieb Alexander Puchmayr: > On Monday 29 December 2003 11:14, Alex Huth wrote: > > Hi guys! > > > > I'm in trouble with vmware. Everything worked fine till i recognized that > > vmware moves my RAM into cache. With in one Minute there is only 4000k > > free available everything else moves to cache ( ~40 per sec ). That > > occuers when i boot the guest. > > > > This happens when i start a guest ( W2K ) . The guest boots normaly, > > after Login he dies! > > > > I already tried to reconfigure vmware, doesn't help. Any ideas? > > This happened on a Athlon XP2200 with 512MB RAM, 128 MB for the guest. > > > > Thanks for any advice! > > AFAIK vmware create a large file in /tmp-directory, which represents the > guest's physical memory. In your case this file will be >128M (it needs > some extra-mem, don't ask me for what). These file is hidden, you can't see > it (even with ls -la, since it is immedately deleted after creation). > So, does the partition holding your /tmp-directory have enough free space > to store this file?
That's what i know so far. There is about 500MB free,what should be enough in /tmp. > > A second possibility which you should check is if you are running into some > limitations (ulimit or quota) Sorry, no qouota, no ulimit :-( Thanks! > > Greetings, > Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
