I cannot start more VM due to the error "The virtual machine is unable to reserve memory", I'm using VMware Workstation 7.1.5 build-491717 on:
Host OS: Oracle Linux 6.2 (Kernel: 2.6.32-100.34.1.el6uek.x86_64).
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K.
MB: Asrock, Z68 Extreme4 Gen3
RAM: 32GB RAM.
Yes, I already knew about reserved memory setting and they are:
Host RAM for all virtual machines = 28771MB.
And selected "Fit all virtual machine memory into reserved host RAM".
Note:
I tried set it to allow to use swap but still cannot start more VM up.
Current memory status are:
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 32722788 32557076 165712 0 142144 8006208
-/+ buffers/cache: 24408724 8314064
Swap: 8388600 232624 8155976
Below is partial output of TOP command ordered by memory used: (Hope it help diagnose)
Mem: 32722788k total, 32544496k used, 178292k free, 142944k buffers
Swap: 8388600k total, 232628k used, 8155972k free, 7991316k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
20105 root 20 0 4875m 2.5g 20m S 1.3 8.1 88:16.72 vmware-vmx
9422 root 20 0 4845m 2.5g 20m S 0.3 8.0 104:06.37 vmware-vmx
9327 root 20 0 4802m 2.4g 19m S 1.3 7.7 95:20.85 vmware-vmx
13192 root 20 0 2792m 2.0g 18m S 1.3 6.5 56:13.97 vmware-vmx
9079 root 20 0 3910m 1.6g 14m S 1.0 5.1 113:55.61 vmware-vmx
10466 root 20 0 3838m 1.6g 14m S 0.7 5.0 46:20.91 vmware-vmx
31799 root 20 0 3808m 1.5g 14m S 1.3 4.9 54:29.31 vmware-vmx
25975 root 20 0 3834m 1.5g 14m S 1.7 4.9 86:42.45 vmware-vmx
31385 root 20 0 3800m 1.5g 14m S 0.7 4.9 48:06.37 vmware-vmx
25890 root 20 0 3800m 1.5g 14m S 1.0 4.9 53:17.67 vmware-vmx
30872 root 20 0 3803m 1.5g 14m S 1.0 4.9 56:11.48 vmware-vmx
5983 root 20 0 3789m 1.5g 14m S 2.3 4.8 112:39.35 vmware-vmx
9626 root 20 0 2699m 121m 4760 S 0.0 0.4 98:49.94 java
28219 root 20 0 1141m 81m 29m S 0.3 0.3 33:56.48 vmware
2346 root 20 0 107m 40m 20m S 0.3 0.1 10:12.09 Xvnc
2556 root 20 0 548m 12m 7232 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.60 nautilus
28280 root 20 0 356m 11m 6008 S 0.0 0.0 1:55.44 vmware-unity-he
8920 root 20 0 436m 11m 8336 S 0.0 0.0 10:03.99 vmware-tray
Any more information need please feel free to let me know.
