Hmz, i'm running multiple windows 2003 servers within virtualbox running on Solaris 10 hosts. Some windows servers are online for almost a year now.
The VHD's are stored on a Zfs mirror and i never had any out-of-memory errors. The solaris servers also serve glassfish, mysqlcluster and many, many more services from zones. Running out of memory can imho only be caused by a programmingerror in the virtualbox version. Zfs will not cause an out-of-memory Kind regards, The out-side Op 12 okt. 2012 om 18:13 heeft "Udo Grabowski (IMK)" <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven: > On 12/10/2012 16:10, Heinrich van Riel wrote: >> >> My concern is as follow, when I 1st start the system and VMs there is 8GB >> of free memory. This number keeps decreasing by about 300MB every 10 hours. >> >> OI - 10GB max allocated to ZFS ARC (only setting change from default >> install) >> .... >> At the current rate there will be no memory free in 10 days. >> >> Am I concerned for no reason? > > This can impact your other work to do on that machine severely. > However, if that is only a fileserver, ZFS will manage to keep > some memory available so that the machine will not swap if > nothing else interferes. Insofar Damians comments on unused > RAM are correct. But if you know you need space for something > else often, see my remedies for this problem in this thread: > > <http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2012-September/009788.html> > > -- > Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.f.Meteorology a.Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT > www-imk.fzk.de/asf/sat/grabowski/ www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php > KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology http://www.kit.edu > Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026 > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
