On 13:51 28 Feb 2003, Camron W. Fox <cwfox@fujitsu.com> wrote: | I'm running RH8 2.4.18-24.8.0 and using VMWare 3.2. I've installed | WIN2K as the quest OS. When I startup to box and login to linux, memory | consumption is at about 36%: | | total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: | Mem: 1055244288 386134016 669110272 0 35733504 182738944 | | After starting VMWare and logging in to W2K - 89% (512MB reserved | memory set for VMWare): | | total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: | Mem: 1055244288 921579520 133664768 0 12247040 715030528 | | After shutdown of W2K and then VMWare - 60%: | | total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: | Mem: 1055244288 624025600 431218688 0 11948032 428929024 | | | Has anyone seen this? Is it a VMWare problem or an RH8 problem? | Desktop makes no difference, KDE, GNOME and WMAKER behave the same. It needn't be a problem. It's probably normal. When any modern OS reads in data (i.e. the VMware executable and the Windows OS image) the data remain in memory in case it's needed again. For example, if you started VMware again it should come up much faster because much may not need to be read from disc. This extra data has no cost! Because it's "clean", not modified WRT to what's on disc, if/when the OS needs more RAM for something it can use any of that immediately, because it need not be saved back to disc. So you probably have nothing to worry about. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 cs@zip.com.au http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ The laws of thermodynamics state that you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't even quit the game. Most human institutions are based on the belief that you can break one of the three laws -- capitalism assumes you can win, socialism assumes you can break even, and religion assumes you can quit the game. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
