Guest Mem 90% and more

[RolandK]

Hi

I have created a fresh new vm. w2k3 64bit R2 SP2. 2 vCPU 4096 MB. Attached a RAW LUN with 390GB on a SAN Storage with 2Gbit/s. The Guest mem is over 90%, Host memory about 3900KB.

In the Task Manager are 2.5 GB of Memory free. What could be the reason for the high guest mem consumption.

Kind regards

Roland

[bradley4681]

is vmware tools installed? what else is running on the server? has the memory usage gone down any?

Cheers,

Bradley Sessions

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[JoJoGabor]

Check the memory performance of the host and look at the memory chart - is one of the VMs ballooning? Check for any mem reservations on the VMs, one VM could be "borrowing" unused memory from this VM

[RolandK]

VMware Tools are installed.

It's just a Fileserver.

Service beremote.exe (BE 12.0),

Service Trendmicro OfficeScan 8.0 SP1.

No other services.

Attached tm.bmp (taks manager in guest OS9

Attache vc.bmp (VM in Virtual Center)

Roland

[RolandK]

I put the VM alone on the ESX Host. Still the same.

[denali80]

Is it part of a Resource group? What are your memory shares set to? Is your memory reserved and unlimited in the 'resources' tab of the VM settings?

[Bandolero]

What anti-virus do you have installed on the vm, and if you do check for real time protection enabled.

Try setting a limit o the vm resources, uncheck resource allocation Limit (unlimited) and limit the amount of memory to 50% of the physical memory available

Good luck

Carlos

[RolandK]

It's not member in a resource pool. Memory is limited to the same size as defined in the vm.

In the meantime i gave more memory and it looks good now.

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

you may try removing the resource allocation limit... If it was set that may have been part of your problem.

Good to see you got it resolved though

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[RolandK]

I set the limit to 4096MB. Allocated Memory is 8192MB. Now the Guest mem % is about 4.

Thanx for your help

Roland