Re: Virtualbox.. hogging resources?
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:52:44 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
(...)
>> How many cores do you have in the host and how many are assigned to the
>> guest?
>
> 1. Guest is assigned 900Mb Ram
Well, I said "cores" (processor cores) not ram :-)
> I think a poster on the vb list may have hit the nail about this. The
> guest OS (Solaris [openindiana]) is known to be a heavy ram user (zfs
> file system) and more ram is recommended, so the thinking was that its
> actually the guest chewing up ram.
Yes, that's also a good advice you can try (minimal ram requirement for
openindiana is 512 MiB but that's for bare metal, I'd guess).
Besides, if physical ram is a constraint or is limited at the host side,
adding a "/swap" slice -or file for paging- of 2 or even 4 GiB can also
help to alleviate the guest performance.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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