2009/9/15 Robert Bronsdon <[email protected]>:
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:38:10 +0100, Umarzuki Mochlis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Version: 3.0.6
>> OS: Debian Lenny AMD64
>>
>> I gave it 512 MB but somehow when I checked with "free -m", it took
>> more than 1 GB.
>>
>> Is this suppose to happen or it is a bug?
>>
>
> Did you run free from within the guest or the host?

host

>
> Also what reading from "free" did you use?


before
$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3714       2600       1114          0        269       1821
-/+ buffers/cache:        509       3205
Swap:         6142          0       6141

after (running guest windows 2003 with sp2)
$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3714       3490        224          0        274       2134
-/+ buffers/cache:       1081       2633
Swap:         6142          0       6141

>
> If it was run in the guest you could have been taking swap space into
> account? By any chance did you set the machine up with 512mb swap?
>
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Umarzuki Mochlis
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