[ale] VMware Server 2.0 resource usage calculations.

[Ed Landa]

> 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.

IIRC, vmware actually consolidates identical pages across multiple
virtual machines.  So, if you have an identical libc paged in on 3
machines, it only stores one copy in memory and references it from each
of the VMs.  There is a stat to account for this, but I've forgotten the
term.

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