Hi,
I am using a VmPlayer 16.1.1 on a Windows 10 pro 20H2 to run a Debian 11.4 with a Umbrel node. It has assigned 6 cores and 8GB RAM and 3D acceleration disabled. Minutes after starting it, it starts consuming RAM until it doubles its memory consumption. I got some screenshots from the hosts' system administration memory tracker:
vmware-vmx.exe working RAM assigned 8469928 all the time +- 1%.
Before running: in use = 32183MB, cache=24598MB , Free=8679MB, available=33273MB
Started: in use=40027MB, cache=25431MB, Free=2MB, available=25071MB
2 minutes after starting: in use=41965, cache=23493MB, free=2MB, available=23206MB
10 minutes after starting: in use= 45396MB, cache=19883MB, free=181MB, available=19822MB
15 minutes after starting: in use=46979MB, cache=18475MB,free=6MB, available=18098MB
40 minutes after starting: in use=51043MB, cache=14212MB,free=93MB, available=17070MB
Just after shutting it down: in use=43097MB, cache=14052MB,free=8331MB
1 minute after shutdown:in use=32140MB,cache=24973MB,free=8611MB, available= 33162MB
Therefore, y'all can see that Available Memory falls not by 8GB but 16GB when running this VM Player, which is not acceptable.
Please, what is causing it? Is there a known vmx memory leak? Is there a configuration option to limit this memory hogging?
Thanks people!
