[RndTbl] Debian Memory on a VM

[Sean Cody]

Can you send me the VMX file for the VM?

I would try setting VM to 512 and go to 4GB and see where the upper limit is meaning there is some kind resource pooling limit in ESX...
The idea came from here: http://www.van-lieshout.com/2009/04/esx-memory-management-part-1/

On 2010-02-02, at 7:46 AM, Doob,Brian [Wpg] wrote:

> I don't have access to my home email at work, so I'm bypassing the MUUG Roundtable for the moment.... My server is a Dell R710 with 24GB RAM running VMware ESXi 4.0. The guest VM has 2GB RAM, and the guest BIOS sees the full 2GB. Debian Sarge only sees 927129600 bytes. This is /proc/meminfo:
> 
>        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  927129600 281206784 645922816        0 63918080 109105152
> Swap: 2780102656        0 2780102656
> MemTotal:       905400 kB
> MemFree:        630784 kB
> MemShared:           0 kB
> Buffers:         62420 kB
> Cached:         106548 kB
> SwapCached:          0 kB
> Active:         103484 kB
> Inactive:       102972 kB
> HighTotal:           0 kB
> HighFree:            0 kB
> LowTotal:       905400 kB
> LowFree:        630784 kB
> SwapTotal:     2714944 kB
> SwapFree:      2714944 kB
> 
> I'm attaching output from dmesg and dmidecode (no "-t" option was available). I think the "905MB" was from top, but I was quoting from memory. The system is running kernel 2.4.27-3-386. I really appreciate your willingness to look into this. Thanks!
> 
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-- 
Sean