On 3/30/2012 3:52 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 30.03.2012 13:48, schrieb Stanislav: >> On 3/30/2012 3:41 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> Am 30.03.2012 13:11, schrieb Stanislav: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I have a question about "vmware-toolbox-cmd". When I run it in the Guest >>>> OS(linux) I see: >>>> root@ubuntu-console:~# /usr/local/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd stat memlimit >>>> 4294967295 MB >>>> What does it mean? When I change memory allocated for VM I don't see that >>>> this value changed. This is for ESXi 4.1. >>> this is not the allocated memory of the VM (RAM) >>> this is the LIMIT which can be lower to partly >>> force memory get ballooned or even compressed >>> >>> look for "ressource limits" in the viclient >>> these can be changed at runtime also in viclient >>> assigned memory itself usually not (depends on license and guest-OS) >>> >> Thanks! >> >> And how can I get amount of allocated memory in runtime? When I use "cat >> /proc/meminfo" in the Guest OS it shows lower values that I set in the >> viclient for VM > BTW: you are aware that this is a devel-list? > > > free -m > > the guest has 8500 MB RAm allocated > the rest is kernel assigned memory > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 8289 7913 376 0 605 3389 > -/+ buffers/cache: 3918 4371 > Swap: 511 0 511 > > ________________________________________ > > there is nothing different on physical machines > below my workstation with 16 GB RAM > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 15939 15718 220 0 234 13241 > -/+ buffers/cache: 2242 13696 > Swap: 2047 2 2045 > > > Sorry for that. I thought that there are some methods in the code how can I determine actual amount of memory, like in the viclient. Any way, thank you for your effort.
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