On 06/10/2012 11:55 PM, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Well, if I start Virtual Box on my notebook (4 GB RAM), the system > uses the swap partition.
Frankly, I don't know what the fuck virtualbox is doing with its memory management, but I was tempted more than once to file a RC bug with a title like this one: Virtualbox fucks up Linux memory on nearly all cases I didn't do it, because I'm unsure if what I'm experiencing is to be considered "normal" or not, or if there are tricks to avoid that. Seriously, when I run it, I always do a "swapoff -a", otherwise my HDD starts spinning fast, even with 4 GB of RAM, and only 1.5 GB of it for the guest. Then even when I do this, I get some random memory allocation warnings printed in the kernel on tty1, as if the system went crazy with no handles for new chunks of memory. All this, when "top" shows there's some remaining free RAM. Let's put it this way: I can't run Virtualbox AND Firefox at the same time, or my laptop becomes unusably slow and non responsive. Am I the only one who experienced that? Is there something I didn't understand, or is it Virtualbox that has a problem? Cheers, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd4e76b.3000...@debian.org