On Monday 17 August 2009 05:32:03 am Gordan Bobic wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:37:25 +0200, Klaus Espenlaub > <klaus.espenl...@sun.com> wrote: > > > As you didn't say a thing about your host OS it's impossible to say > > anything intelligent about host memory usage characteristics. > > Both guests were Windows XP. > > > The information so far was absolutely correct, as Windows guests touch > > the entire RAM they detect pretty early during startup. So they need all > > RAM almost instantly. Other guest OSes are less greedy, and touch memory > > only as they make use if it. > > Sure, but my point is that 4GB of memory just went missing somewhere. Each > VM had 2GB allocated, and the host has 4GB of RAM. Yet somehow 2x2GB (two > guests) ended up using up 4GB of RAM + 4GB of swap and caused the machine > to grind to a halt. > > Gordan > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > vbox-users@virtualbox.org > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > Hello, Gordan -- The inquiry that Klaus posted relates to "your HOST {my emphasis} OS". You state that "Both guests were Windows XP -- but this says nothing at all about the HOST machine. Would you care to address his "real" concern?
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