Hi It appears that requires huge amounts of memory, while Solaris starts you can see the memory usage grow too fast, then the swap grows until there's no more system memory available or the swapping makes unusable the system.
I was thinking the problem was my system but now see Solaris eats lots of memory... Regards > Hi all, > > I'm running VirtualBox 2.0.2 on a Solaris 10 host, with OpenSolaris as a > guest machine. I'm constantly hitting a problem where my host runs out > of memory. > > I have 3 gigs of ram on the host in total and I assigned 1 gig to the > guest. Before booting the guest I have around 1.5 gigs of free memory > on the host. Here is my vmstat output: > > r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr cd s0 -- -- > in sy cs us sy id > 0 0 0 1688812 1534436 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 533 > 629 579 1 0 98 > > when I boot my guest, on the OpenSolaris login prompt I get around 910M > free: > > 0 0 0 529736 938412 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1167 13346 1289 > 4 5 90 > > after login it's around 750M left: > > 0 0 0 196888 770368 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2018 19572 2999 11 > 4 85 > > now I start Firefox on the guest: > > 0 0 0 24836 683884 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1474 3735 1985 4 > 1 95 > > 660M free on the host and lo and behold vbox pops up saying: > > Unable to allocate and lock memory. The virtual machine will be paused. > Please close applications to free up memory or close the VM. > > Error ID: HostMemoryLow > Severity: Non-Fatal Error > > I reproduced this at least 4 times. Is this just me or is anyone else > having this problem? > > > Cheers, > > > Andrew > > -- > . __/_/_ w: http://darq.com/ > . __/_/_ t: 020 7100 1447 > . / / e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
