Hi Peter,
> 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.
isainfo -kv
64-bit amd64 kernel modules
> Are you running anything else but virtual box on this
> computer? Peter
No, except SRS 4.1 so that I can access the VirtualBox utility via a
Sun Ray.
prstat -s size gives me
PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
6066 root 740M 654M run 49 0 0:23:22 19% VirtualBox/14
1834 utwww 274M 20M sleep 59 0 0:01:19 0.0% java/63
1089 noaccess 163M 17M sleep 59 0 0:01:51 0.0% java/19
1288 root 91M 6948K sleep 59 -10 0:01:44 0.0% java/22
6053 root 61M 12M sleep 59 0 0:00:08 0.0% VirtualBox/11
2082 root 50M 37M sleep 59 0 0:06:21 0.1% Xnewt/1
1862 root 24M 4528K sleep 59 0 0:00:45 0.0% Xorg/1
2358 root 14M 344K sleep 59 0 0:02:01 0.0% VBoxSVC/9
6059 root 13M 5996K sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% VBoxSVC/9
7 root 13M 432K sleep 59 0 0:00:02 0.0% svc.startd/12
720 root 13M 1140K sleep 59 0 0:00:02 0.0% fmd/18
2251 root 12M 2180K sleep 59 0 0:00:37 0.0% wmaker/1
1904 root 11M 692K sleep 59 0 0:00:22 0.0% dtgreet/1
9 root 11M 1016K sleep 59 0 0:00:09 0.0%
svc.configd/23
2348 root 10M 1212K sleep 59 0 0:00:02 0.0% gdnc/1
6026 root 9400K 576K sleep 59 0 0:00:01 0.0% snmpd/1
2090 root 8332K 416K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% dtlogin/1
2250 root 8236K 416K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% wmaker/1
163 root 7408K 2212K sleep 59 0 0:00:08 0.0% nscd/34
1028 root 7076K 520K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% dtlogin/1
4389 root 6692K 396K sleep 49 0 0:00:01 0.0%
VBoxXPCOMIPCD/1
Total: 81 processes, 369 lwps, load averages: 0.57, 0.50, 0.29
running only one virtual machine. There should be plenty of free memory
for more vms!?
Thanks,
Andreas
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