Andreas, as you see from vmstat output columns (w), (free) and (sr) your machine starts to page heavily when starting second vm. You do not have enough free memory to run the second vm. You may have 4 GB RAM but it looks like you are runnning with 32bit kernel. Check please isainfo -kv. Are you running anything else but virtual box on this computer? Peter
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 01:07, Andreas Höschler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wanted to let you know my latest results. Since VirtualBox 2.1.0 > braught me nowhere, I gave VirtualBox 2.0.6 a second try. > > I fired up the following three machines on the Ultra 20 with 4 GB RAM. > > • First Solaris 10 guest 612 MB > • Second Solaris 10 guest 612 MB > • Windows XP guest 312 MB > > The first Solaris guest is running and usuable. The Windows guest is > running . The second Solaris guest is still starting and not usable at > all. vmstat gives me > > kthr memory page disk faults > cpu > r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr s0 s1 -- -- in sy cs > us sy id > 0 0 26 3138292 33920 153 313 563 781 1179 0 73242 212 0 0 0 823 1855 > 29956 1 8 91 > 0 0 26 3138292 32860 215 379 607 634 1277 0 97696 209 0 0 0 820 1749 > 32596 1 9 91 > 0 0 26 3138292 33444 324 451 445 1172 2012 0 107389 197 0 0 0 807 1782 > 26323 1 9 90 > 0 0 26 3138292 33012 218 426 714 684 1505 0 89790 246 0 0 0 857 1883 > 37625 1 9 90 > 0 0 26 3138292 32924 325 573 933 1238 2641 0 150388 283 0 0 0 892 1745 > 46517 1 11 88 > 0 0 26 3138292 33052 583 843 952 1349 3259 0 190204 300 0 0 0 910 1719 > 47570 1 12 86 > 0 0 26 3138292 33252 518 718 435 1361 2778 0 191331 178 0 0 0 792 1694 > 25715 1 11 88 > 0 0 26 3138292 33204 322 510 630 1084 2017 0 135905 218 0 0 0 831 1763 > 34449 1 10 89 > 0 0 26 3138292 33104 615 831 635 1109 3026 0 199645 219 0 0 0 827 1762 > 33985 1 11 88 > 0 0 26 3138292 32480 457 714 764 1451 2940 0 165810 260 0 0 0 876 1819 > 39192 1 11 88 > 0 0 26 3138292 32540 609 797 628 1419 3352 0 198182 232 0 0 0 843 1705 > 33804 1 12 87 > 0 0 26 3138292 33288 605 819 573 1209 3186 0 178293 206 0 0 0 815 1723 > 31857 1 10 89 > 0 0 26 3138084 32760 387 585 571 926 2059 0 138331 207 0 0 0 820 1764 > 31445 1 10 89 > 0 0 26 3137268 33572 261 429 540 791 1594 0 85323 227 0 0 0 837 1883 > 30515 1 9 90 > 0 0 26 3137268 33076 330 511 594 1228 2259 0 135721 206 0 0 0 817 1763 > 32721 1 10 89 > 0 0 26 3137268 33272 183 390 719 738 1434 0 98229 246 0 0 0 855 1772 > 35908 1 9 90 > 0 0 26 3137268 32192 395 574 601 1375 2497 0 168154 211 0 0 0 823 1773 > 32021 1 11 88 > 0 0 26 3137268 32668 252 492 735 808 1474 0 79464 238 0 0 0 849 1731 > 36404 1 9 90 > 0 0 26 3137268 32008 642 902 959 1366 3743 0 267845 300 0 0 0 911 1799 > 48409 1 14 85 > kthr memory page disk faults > cpu > r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr s0 s1 -- -- in sy cs > us sy id > 0 0 26 3137268 31968 627 816 543 1673 3258 0 226562 206 0 0 0 816 1738 > 30600 1 11 87 > 0 0 26 3137268 33172 493 664 450 931 2414 0 147396 178 0 0 0 789 1766 > 27330 1 10 89 > 1 0 26 3137268 31764 324 485 443 1013 1906 0 133612 187 0 0 0 800 1840 > 26231 1 9 90 > 0 0 26 3137268 33556 352 564 759 808 2093 0 136668 235 0 0 0 846 1785 > 38125 1 10 89 > 0 0 26 3137268 32240 557 755 533 1613 3404 0 257305 194 0 0 0 807 1796 > 30229 1 12 87 > 0 0 26 3137268 34020 236 428 624 551 1357 0 81596 226 0 0 0 832 1837 > 32977 1 9 90 > 0 0 26 3137268 34128 176 343 612 905 1594 0 107835 211 0 0 0 824 1742 > 33027 1 9 90 > 0 0 26 3137268 31696 350 515 495 937 1871 0 129069 191 0 0 0 800 1774 > 28748 1 9 90 > 0 0 26 3137268 32192 412 670 961 1135 2777 0 168838 299 0 0 0 909 1748 > 47341 1 12 87 > 0 0 26 3137268 32620 444 668 808 889 2276 0 176501 245 0 0 0 855 1724 > 40746 1 11 88 > 0 0 26 3137268 30600 1013 1292 842 2107 5487 0 495940 271 0 0 0 886 > 1599 42941 1 17 82 > 0 0 26 3137268 32704 657 835 433 1608 3260 0 207040 192 0 0 0 801 1763 > 26267 1 11 88 > 0 0 26 3137268 32272 274 417 408 676 1484 0 71349 162 0 0 0 774 1751 > 25772 1 8 91 > 0 0 26 3137268 32576 367 525 527 1006 2375 0 134855 198 0 0 0 806 1750 > 29719 1 9 89 > 0 0 26 3137268 32628 329 550 837 874 1660 0 86211 255 0 0 0 868 1745 > 41457 1 9 90 > 0 0 26 3137268 32484 444 636 675 1389 2875 0 158156 241 0 0 0 852 1822 > 35531 1 11 88 > 0 0 26 3137268 32188 600 858 750 1323 3282 0 216432 243 0 0 0 850 1573 > 39019 1 12 87 > > I am not sure what this means but my idea is that the numbers under > page and disk should be much smaller!? > > The system continues to slow down and will most likely die in a couple > of minutes. Should I be able to run these three virtual machines on the > Ultra 20? What can I do? > > Thanks, > > Andreas > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
