Sorry for my silly question, do you really have 4GB of physical memory available to the system? Even if you were running 32bit kernel each process on Solaris would address at least 3 GB of memory.
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:20, Andreas Höschler <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
