[ale] VMware Server 2.0 resource usage calculations.

[Ed Cashin]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Christoper Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how VMware Server 2.0 calculates memory usage.
> I have 5 guests running and the GUI tells me that only 584MB is being
> used totally.  IMO, that is not much.
>
> I just installed a CentOS 5.2 guest today and did updates.  VMware is
> telling me that the guest is using 25MB.  Free on the guest tells me
> a totally different story.
>
> [cfowler at nagios ~]$ free
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        515488     429860      85628          0      83500     275940
> -/+ buffers/cache:      70420     445068
> Swap:       522104          0     522104

Could the "used" pages in the VM be paged out in reality?

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  Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>