<quote who="Jor-el"> > memory. One niggling limitation though : the VMWare version that I > am using (3.0.0 build 1455) has a max of 204MB that can be > allocated to a VM session. If you need more than that for a VM > session, you are SOL.
i think that has more to do with you only having 256MB of memory and probably can only reserve 204MB. reserving any more i believe would cause a severe performance hit on the host machine. my desktop here has 512MB and i can reserve 409MB max. im sure with 1GB i could probably reserve at least 800MB.. i tried to boot with 409MB reserved and my system slowed to a crawl before it even got to 200MB. probably because im already using 500MB in other apps so i don't have 400MB to spare(it goes straight to swap..) 13:13:26 up 214 days, 21:01, 36 users, load average: 1.27, 0.76, 0.53 186 processes: 183 sleeping, 2 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 7.9% user, 68.0% system, 0.0% nice, 24.1% idle Mem: 516544K total, 513552K used, 2992K free, 10484K buffers Swap: 748864K total, 90244K used, 658620K free, 171604K cached memory hogs: 16360 root -10 -10 240M 202M 1984 S < 1.9 40.0 1960m XFree86 11320 aphro 11 0 339M 113M 112M R 57.9 22.5 302:08 vmware 12438 aphro 0 0 34216 32M 10480 S 0.0 6.5 2:46 communicator-sm i need to restart X to free up that memory i guess. probably won't do that till xmas break though. too lazy to close out my 50 windows. maybe i'll toss in a 512MB stick next time i reboot..ram is so cheap now!($73 for pc133 kingston) nate